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...Legion considered [picketing] art museums displaying the works of Picasso Rivera...
...that of a concrete stadium. And because most of the oval's seats are located on the two tall slopes, most of the spectators can watch the university's football team from reasonably near the 50-yd. line. On the stadium's sloping outside walls, Diego Rivera is now executing a three-dimensional frieze of acid-painted stones. This "sculpture painting" depicts the history of Mexican sport from Mayan handball to gringo baseball...
Mexico's aging maestro, Diego Rivera, 66, is one of his country's most assiduous Communists and one of the most successful publicity seekers in the world today. His formula for making news: invite attack. In recent years he has earned headlines for the cause with a mural which includes the printed legend, Dios no existe (God does not exist), and with worshipful portrayals of Mao and Stalin (TIME, March 17). Last week the jug-bellied joker did it again, this time with a huge mural on the facade of a Mexico City theater...
...mural, tracing the history of the theater in Mexico, showed Mexico's favorite comic, Cantinflas, in the cloak of Juan Diego - the 16th century Indian to whom, by pious belief, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared. A Roman Catholic group protested that this time Rivera had "exceeded the human limits of tolerance" by painting a leering Cantinflas as the symbol of "those who have turned their backs on Christ." Nothing of the sort, replied Rivera, with unctuous glee; his Cantinflas symbolized "the opposition of Mexico's poverty-stricken peasant masses to the country's 9,000 millionaires...
Last week, after opening a class for mothers at the local women's club, Carlos Rivera was planning to teach his techniques this spring in nearby towns, and next summer at New Mexico Western College. With 1,672 of El Paso's first-and second-graders already learning two languages, Rivera was glancing fondly at next year's kindergarten pupils, who will learn their "Pasen ustedes" along with their "Excuse me, pleases...