Francisco Toledo Embodied the Activist Soul of Oaxaca
In his later years, the master artist Francisco Toledo, who died Thursday at 79, developed a fondness for making kites. He decorated them with stencils of grasshoppers, turtles and shrimp, and prints of elephants with monkeys and skeletons, exhibiting a playfulness that simmered below the surface of much of his work and life. But even…