Exhibitions in Mexico City

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)

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

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)

Luminous "sentinels" animated by animal movements react in real time to seismic signals from around the world, echoing folk earthquake-warning lore.

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.

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 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 JumexFree

"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 Nacional de Historia, Castillo de ChapultepecPast

"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 ChapultepecPast

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 ArtesPast

"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)Past

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

Museo Tamayo Arte ContemporáneoPast

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

Museo del Templo MayorPast

The Mexica ballgame: 100+ finds from Tenochtitlan's main ball court, stone rings and player figures, plus two 3,700-year-old Olmec rubber balls from El Manatí.

Museo Tamayo Arte ContemporáneoPast

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 Franz MayerPast

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 Franz MayerPast

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 Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)Past

"The history of how to sit": 20th- and 21st-century chairs from MUAC's design collection trace a cultural genealogy of seating in Mexico.

Museo Nacional de San CarlosPast

"(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 Tamayo Arte ContemporáneoPast

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

Museo Franz MayerPast

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 de Arte ModernoPast

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 San CarlosPast

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

Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida KahloPast

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 AntropologíaFreePast

"Tones and Shadows": 46 paintings by Afro-Mexican artist Baltazar Castellano Melo on the beliefs, dances and fishing life of Guerrero's Costa Chica. First-floor gallery; free.

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 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 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 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.