The Palace of Fine Arts has a fabulous Art Deco interior but the real draw in Diego Rivera's mural 'Man at the Crossroads'. It was orginally commissioned by New York's Rockefeller Centre but they ended up destroying it over a row about its political content. They asked Rivera to remove the likeness of Lenin as it may offend people visiting an American public building. Rivera said he would rather the whole mural was destroyed & that's what ultimately happened. I wonder if they had any knowledge at all of Rivera, his work & his political views before they made the commission. It seems not. Rivera decided to recreate the rejected mural for this building in 1935 & here it has stayed.
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