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Mexican Artist José Gutierrez, an instructor at the National Polytechnic Institute, has experimented with every kind of medium from ordinary house paint to the newest plastics to determine which can best withstand the elements. Last week Gutierrez made a gloomy prediction about Diego Rivera's latest mural in the water distribution chamber of Mexico City's new water system (TIME, June...
Gutierrez' forecast: with 140 million gallons of water rushing past it every day, the submerged part of Rivera's mural will completely disappear within ten years. Diego's comment: "Tell him to go to hell...
Negroes & Mongols. To complement the Negro on the south wall, Rivera painted on the north wall an oriental woman, with a white fetus cuddled in a transparent uterus. The white races, Diego elaborately maintains, are actually half-Mongol, half-Negro...
Part of the north wall is taken up with Rivera's gloomy conception of Mexican history. To him it is symbolized by three things: a pre-Columbian temple with a bloody sacrificial altar before it, a "pagan-Christian" temple with an altar surmounted by a cross, and a "pagan-Christian-capitalist" temple with the altar this time surmounted by a dollar sign...
...revolution," sighs Marxist Rivera, "never came...