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That hurts, viscerally, that

That hurts, viscerally, that literal whitewashing. What a fantastic mural. I am so glad you have photographs of it.

Thanks for the history lesson as well as the theory, Isaac. I enjoyed this. I do think murals have a much better than average shot at being political art, and I understand your critique of the individualist and macho nature of most tagging. Something in me really responds, though, to wholescale walls that are murals, really, done in graffiti style: I would like more creativity, maybe, than simple photorealism, in collectively produced murals.

More Rivera! Find some excuse to post on Rivera and to put up more of your photos.

maeve66 is a middle school teacher in a working class suburb of Oakland.

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