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Like 16th Century conquistadores, European and U. S. intelligentsia have spent the past two years discovering Mexico. Mexico's modern painters, Mexico's folk arts, Mexico's archeological remains have been the subject of innumerable books and pamphlets, even of flights by Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife. Latest to join the parade is Dr. Elie Faure, famed French critic, parlor anarchist, author of the most readable if not the most authoritative history of art. Recently he arrived in Los Angeles fresh from a visit to Mexico, on his way to Japan, and delivered an address to the California Art Club which appeared for the first time last week in the pages of The Art Digest. Therein he suggested a few things that John D. Rockefeller Jr. might do with his money. Said Critic Faure:

"We are now passing from a period of individual to one of collective expression. . . . Today we are less insistent on playing solo parts, and begin to be content with playing one part in the general orchestra. . . ." During my recent sojourn in Mexico I found startling confirmation of my ideas. There as I observed the impressive monuments of Toltec architecture, I stood in the presence of a great collective expression. ... In this connection I cannot understand why Americans who give millions for the restoration of Versailles, do not spend a few millions for the excavation of the uncounted temples in Central America and for the establishment of museums which might be the greatest in the world.* You have at your gates an Egypt, but 20 times greater. . . ."