Democratizing Prints
Democratizing Prints
This exhibition features three hundred prints, predominately by artists from a printmaking collective founded in 1937 in Mexico City “with the aim of stimulating graphic arts production in the interests of the Mexican people.”
FREE
The Met Museum
February 08, 2025 to May 10, 2025
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Exhibition Details

The Met Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints houses more than one million drawings, prints, and illustrated books made in Europe and the Americas from around 1400 to the present day.

Because of their number and sensitivity to light, the works can only be exhibited for a limited period and are usually housed in on-site storage facilities.

Additional Details

Many of the prints on view were published by the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Workshop of Popular Graphic Art), a printmaking collective founded in 1937 in Mexico City “with the aim of stimulating graphic arts production in the interests of the Mexican people.”

The Pinkowitz material dovetails perfectly with The Met’s collection of Mexican prints and includes works by artists not previously represented.

Location

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery 690
1000 5th Ave
New York, NY 10028

Image: Detail from Leopoldo Méndez (Mexican, 1902–1969). Posada in his workshop (homage to Posada) (detail), ca. 1956. Linocut. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Richard and JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz, 2024 (2024.69.30) © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City / courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art