Exhibitions in Mexico City

Museo Franz Mayer

The Vanity of Small Differences: Grayson Perry's tapestries after Hogarth's A Rake's Progress on class and taste, with historic prints from the Arts Council Collection.

Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso

Exhibition ("Interwoven") presented with Mextrópoli, Mexico City's 13th Festival of Architecture and the City, on view at San Ildefonso through early December.

Museo Nacional de Antropología

The Codex Azcatitlan, on loan from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, returns after nearly two centuries: the Mexica migration from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan, with codex facsimiles.

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)

A 13-channel film installation re-staging artists' manifestos, from Futurism and Dada to Fluxus and Dogma 95, to question the artist's role today.

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)

"From the Threshold": artists, collectives and activists challenge the political split between nature and humanity, lending the natural world sentience and spirit.

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

The museum's own brutalist building by González de León and Zabludovsky, read through Yuk Hui's idea of "cosmotechnics", for its 45th anniversary.

Museo Anahuacalli

Yeni Mao's bronze and metal sculptures and architectural interventions link Ford's River Rouge plant, which shaped Rivera's Detroit murals, to the Anahuacalli's volcanic stone.

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

"The Event of a Thread": 16 contemporary artists on the stories woven into textiles, an ifa touring show joined by 10 textile works from the Tamayo collection.

Museo Nacional de San Carlos

"The Life of Things": some 140 still lifes, sculptures, photos and objects from the 16th to 21st centuries, reread through material culture and the biography of objects.

Museo Jumex · Free

"Tell Me Everything": Richard Prince's first major Latin American show, 140+ works from the 1970s on, including his Cowboys, Girlfriends, Jokes and Cartoons series.

Museo Jumex · Free

Álvaro Urbano's immersive homage to Helen Fowler O'Gorman and her botanical world, evoking Juan O'Gorman's Casa Cueva in the Pedregal de San Ángel.

Museo Jumex · Free

Peruvian artist Raúl Silva's first Mexican solo show: video, archives, painting and sculpture on undersea telecom cables and the rise of Cancún tourism.

Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL)

"Mexico: Route and Destination" traces how painters, photographers, maps and tourist posters built Mexico's image as a travel destination in the early 20th century.

Museo Franz Mayer

Models, prototypes and the craft of design: how error and correction drive design. Opens the new Design and Process gallery and Living Design Library.

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)

"Our Listenings": Guadeloupean artist Minia Biabiany explores the colonial legacy of chlordecone poisoning and ways of listening to land and water.

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

"The Paris Years": Oaxacan artists Rufino Tamayo, Rodolfo Nieto and Francisco Toledo, whose Paris stays fused pre-Hispanic and popular art with the avant-garde.

Museo Franz Mayer

Germany in the Franz Mayer Collection: for the museum's 40th anniversary, a selection of ~300 German pieces its founder gathered, from writing cabinets to silver and rare books.

Museo Franz Mayer

Dürer: The First Viral Artist. The museum's 36 Dürer prints recast him as the first global image-maker, with interactive technology for a fresh look at the Renaissance.