David Alfaro Siqueiros’ America Tropical mural on Olvera Street near downtown L.A. has been covered up for decades and is due to be unveiled again on October 9th. Close to $10 million spent in a public-private partnership, the mural has been conserved to the degree it was possible, as there are no existing photographs of the original. Whitewashed and completely painted over in the 30s, the incendiary 18 x 80-foot fresco was executed in 1932 with imagery of an indigenous Mexican man tied to a cross with an American eagle perched above.
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