![]() ![]() Would a city in Mexico dismantle the works of the great Diego Rivera? they argued. People who had grown up in Tortilla Flats met with him, each hoping to take home a panel that depicted someone in their family, a favorite restaurant, any memento of the old neighborhood.īut a few people spoke out for keeping the mural intact, and history alive. Last year he put out word that the mural had not aged gracefully and had to come down. This will be Mora’s second attempt to deconstruct his work. You still get the general idea of joy and music and struggle, but a good winter’s rain could wipe out the detail as surely as the state wiped out the neighborhood a half-century ago. In some places, the paint is so faded you can’t read the mural’s narrative. Someone has used a blade to etch Xs over many of the mural’s darker faces. A few splotches of graffiti have appeared.
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