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When TIME'S editors decided to do a cover story on Mexico's Diego Rivera, they asked the artist if he would like to do his own cover portrait. As a result, a new self-portrait of Rivera, drawn to TIME'S specifications, appears on this week's cover-the first time that a cover subject has done his own portrait for TIME...
When he heard about it on the radio in Leavenworth, Lloyd scrawled in self-pity: "I have no more mother and brothers for them to murder." He was wrong: brother Doc got a bullet in the head four years later trying to crash out of Alcatraz...
Communist friends objected. A self-proclaimed revolutionary like Diego, they argued, should also be up to date in his art. By returning to the representational clarity and the simple story-telling art of the Renaissance, Rivera had proved himself hopelessly bourgeois...
...well add sculpture to his talents and triumphs, just as he may well get himself into more political rumpuses. After all his travels, however, Diego knows where home is. Happily fingering and musing over his pre-Cortesian sculptures, he looks like one of the statues himself-big-bellied, self-contained, benign, timeless...
Cannon in the Dining Room. Catholic students raided the hotel, scratched out the brief blasphemy and mutilated Rivera's self-portrait as well. The hotel management hastily boarded up the whole thing.* Today, customers in the Del Prado's wine-carpeted dining room nibble their canard faisandé before a decorous red screen, on the other side of which Rivera's painting stands like a hidden cannon...