MJ Rivera

Author

Rivera is a New York City–based journalist with more than two decades of experience, known for thriving in a media capital that tests endurance as much as talent. Reporting has taken her from the World Cup to the Louvre. Her deep knowledge of art history has been shaped by academic research, extensive international travel, and years of study in New York’s major museums and many leading art institutions around the world.

Articles by MJ

Post-Impressionism

10 Van Gogh Paintings to Celebrate Spring

Spring blossoms held a special power for Vincent van Gogh and inspired paintings of remarkable beauty, often concealing the difficulties he faced...

MJ Rivera 20 March 2026

Museum Stories

15 Masterpieces of European Painting You Need to See at the Met

How does anyone begin to navigate 5,000 years of global art without feeling instantly overwhelmed? Do not despair—DailyArt Magazine has you...

MJ Rivera 9 March 2026

Review

Not Your Average Portrait Show in New York—Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture at the Frick

Thomas Gainsborough assembled a veritable army of portraits of “the great and the good” in Georgian Britain. And the new exhibition at the Frick...

MJ Rivera 5 March 2026