Mercado Presidente Abelardo L. Rodriguez

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"Isamu Noguchi's mural The History of Mexico, carved directly into a brick wall, is black and red, big and punchy. It features weapons, a hammer and sickle, a swastika, a fist, and human figures, documenting common socialist themes of the period. Noguchi took eight months to complete this mural and received the same payment as the other artists who completed works here: $88. This is a master work hidden in plain sight. This market, constructed by architect Antonio Muñoz in 1933, was initially called Carmen Market but later renamed after Abelardo L. Rodríguez, the president at the time. It features a number of murals by notable painters and muralists of the time (chosen by Diego Rivera), among them Pablo O'Higgins' The Workers' Struggle; Antonio Pujol's Food and the Problems of the Worker; Miguel Tzab Trejo's History of the Mayans and the Aztecs; and Marion Greenwood's Food and its Distribution through the Viga Canal." - Scarlett Lindeman