Exhibitions in Mexico City

Museo Nacional de San Carlos

"The Heroic Body and Its Avatars": artworks, teaching casts, imagery and audiovisual media critically tracing the Western classical ideal of the (male) body.

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

Late-career paintings by Rufino Tamayo, portraits, landscapes, nudes and still lifes such as Sandías (1968), from the founding collection and private lenders.

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

Peruvian artist Fátima Rodrigo builds a walk-on stage from Latin American TV music-show and game-show sets, and the modernist styles they spread.

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

"Before the Eclipse": 60+ artists who explored Mexico's pre-Hispanic past, land and popular culture between 1981 and 1991.

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.

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 Franz Mayer

World Press Photo's 70th-anniversary show in the cloister: this year's winners plus the most emblematic prize-winning images of seven decades of photojournalism.

Museo de Arte Moderno

90th-anniversary survey of Marysole Wörner Baz: six decades of painting, prints and sculpture that redeem the discarded and silenced. Sala Gamboa.

Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec

"Mexico facing the world": around 200 period costumes and furnishings from the museum's holdings portray Mexico in 1930, year of the first World Cup, plus panels of a 1924 Roberto Montenegro stained-glass window.

Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec

Over 130 front pages and photographs from the sports daily Esto recall how Mexico lived the 1970 and 1986 men's World Cups and the 1971 women's tournament.

Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes

"Aztlán, Time Tunnel": the palace's first big survey of Chicano art, with 70+ works by 33 mostly Los Angeles-based artists and collectives. Final days.

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)

A MUAC-commissioned sound piece in the Espacio de Experimentación Sonora blending ambient noise with field recordings from devastated US ecosystems.

Museo Franz Mayer

Crafts of Ink: video works by Turkish artist Ali Kazma on the creative process of writing, featuring Alberto Manguel and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.

Museo Nacional de San Carlos

"(Dis)ordering the Collection through Gender": paintings, sculpture and prints from the collection reread for the nude, women in religious art, power and violence.

Museo Franz Mayer

Mexico's first biodesign exhibition: emerging designers working with living systems to show design that is conscious of the interdependence of all living beings.

Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo

Design and the avant-garde in Frida Kahlo's home: Bauhaus-style furniture by Gastón Chaussat's Studio Evolución, which Kahlo kept, with objects, models and photos.

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.