Who Am I To Disagree With The New York Times?

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This is Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Art

The “Detroit Industry” 
frescoes are probably 
as close as this country 
gets to the ceiling 
of the Sistine Chapel.
Roberta Smith  **
New York Times
(4/4/15)

In 1506, Michaelangelo was commissioned by a Catholic pope.
In 1932, Diego Rivera was commissioned by an American industrialist.

               

If American industry  prospered today,
then it might be affordable for most Americans
to visit the Sistine Chapel.


If  CarPeo Honeymoon Fund prosperity mandates visiting
the "Rivera" Chapel then it might be affordable for us
to send postcards to most Americans.

It has been rumored that Mr. Rivera refused to paint on the ceiling
because he was afraid that  his artist/wife,  Frida Kahlo,
might put a hex on the scaffolding.

The Detroit Industry
fresco cycle was conceived
by Diego Rivera as a tribute
to the city's manufacturing
base and labor force.

Instead of the spirituality of God and Man reaching across the sky,
 DETROIT INDUSTRY murals feature
the working rhythm of  men of different races.

Rivera completed
the twenty-seven
panel project in
eleven months,
from April 1932
to March 1933.

The bespectacled man in the bowler hat is  Diego Rivera.

It is considered
the finest example
of Mexican mural art
in the United States.




































































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Footnotes
I begin with the obvious:
This morning's mail from Mrs. CarPeo
morphed into what you see on this page.

However, were she to have written the text,
it would–no doubt–have been more more aesthetically pleasing
and intelligent but probably a teensy bit less humorous.  

**
Roberta Smith's quote would have been much more profound
but significantly less accurate were it not
to contain the word probably.  

I end with the obvious:
Happy Easter  or  Happy Passover  or
Happy Sunday to anyone who reads this!
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