Murals
Painting on public walls, state-sponsored after the Revolution. Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros, and the buildings that hold them. Mexican law permits photographing works visible from public places, which is why these are here, and the same law does not reach the cycles they painted in Detroit, Dartmouth and Los Angeles, which are absent for that reason.
Part of Mexico
181 moments in this segment.
- - The National Palace, 1909. A glass plate negative of the palace on the Zócalo. Mexico City, 1909. Rivera did not begin painting its stairway until 1929, twenty years after this was taken.
- - The Palacio de Bellas Artes, 1915. A glass plate negative of the unfinished building, then called the opera house. Mexico City, 1915. Work had stopped by then and did not resume in earnest until the late 1920s.
- - The Great Tenochtitlan. Rivera's mural of the Tlatelolco market with the lake city behind it, painted in 1945. Palacio Nacional, Mexico City. It is the panel most often reproduced from the corridor cycle.
- - The Education Ministry courtyard, 1986. The patio of the Secretaría de Educación Pública, its walls lined with Rivera's fresco cycle. Mexico City, 1986. Rivera painted about 235 panels here between 1923 and 1928, his first great cycle.
- - MURALES DEL PALACIO DE BELLAS ARTES. An INBAL film on the murals of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The palace opened in 1934 after decades of interrupted construction.
- - Rivera's Epic of the Mexican People. The mural cycle on the main stairway of the National Palace. Mexico City, 2011. Rivera worked on the stairway and the corridor above it on and off from 1929 to 1951, and never finished the corridor.
- - The central patio of the National Palace. The arcaded courtyard the murals look down on. Mexico City, 2011. Rivera's cycle runs around three walls of the stairwell leading up from this patio.
- - Murales de Bellas Artes. The culture ministry presents the Bellas Artes murals. The third floor functions as a permanent gallery of the movement.
- - Hernández and Ayala in Tlaxcala. Mural work by Rafael Hernández Maldonado and Rodolfo Ayala at the state government palace. Tlaxcala, 2012. The Tlaxcala palace murals tell the story of the Tlaxcalans as allies of Cortés against the Mexica.
- - Maya painting in the museum. A Maya mural shown in the museum's Maya gallery. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Wall painting in Mexico runs from Teotihuacan and Bonampak to the twentieth century without a real break.
- - A second Maya mural. Another painted Maya wall on display. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Maya painters used mineral blues and reds that have held their colour for over a thousand years.
- - Maya wall painting, detail. A closer view of the museum's Maya mural display. Mexico City, 2012. Maya blue, made from indigo and a clay, is famously resistant to fading.
- - Bonampak, copied by Rina Lazo. A full-scale copy of the Bonampak murals painted by Rina Lazo for the museum. Mexico City, 2012. Lazo was Guatemalan, worked as Rivera's assistant, and spent months in the jungle copying the rooms.
- - Mercado Abelardo L. Rodríguez. Canal Once films the Mercado Abelardo L. Rodríguez. The market was decorated by young muralists including several foreign artists in the 1930s.
- - Los Hilados in the metro. Ariosto Otero Reyes's mural at Metro Revolución. Mexico City, 2013. Otero has painted several stations, continuing muralism underground decades after the movement was declared over.
- - The Hospital de Jesús. The hospital founded by Cortés, still working on its original site. Mexico City, 2013. Orozco painted its church ceiling and dome in the 1940s, an apocalypse left unfinished at his death.
- - Inside the Bellas Artes dome. The interior of the dome of the Palace of Fine Arts. Mexico City, October 2013. The building took thirty years from 1904, held up by the Revolution and by the ground sinking under its weight.
- - Murales del Palacio de Bellas Artes. INBAL films the murals of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Orozco painted Catharsis there in 1934.
- - Polyforum Siqueiros. Canal Once films the Polyforum Siqueiros. La Marcha de la Humanidad was completed there in 1971 and is among the largest murals in the world.
- - The Bellas Artes school at San Miguel. The art school in San Miguel de Allende, housed in a former convent. Guanajuato, 2014. Siqueiros began a mural here in 1948 and left it unfinished after a dispute.
- - Artes - Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central. Canal Once's Artes covers Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central. Rivera painted it between 1946 and 1947 for the Hotel del Prado.
- - Documental: El Arte de la Restauración. The Museo Nacional de Antropología presents a documentary on the art of restoration. Conservation science in Mexico is centred on the national institutes.
- - La historia no contada de México 1 Los muralistas. A documentary on the muralists and the untold history of Mexico. The movement wrote a national narrative onto public walls.
- - Orozco in the Palacio de Gobierno. The mural cycle on the stairwell of the Jalisco state government building. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. José Clemente Orozco painted Hidalgo here in 1937, torch in hand, above a crowd of fighting figures.
- - Pachuca se Pinta, opened. The macromural covering the houses of colonia Palmitas, on its opening day. Pachuca, Hidalgo, 31 August 2015. The project painted around 200 houses on a hillside as one continuous image.
- - The Cabañas dome and courtyard. The patio of the Instituto Cabañas, the dome above holding Orozco's Man of Fire. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. Orozco painted the chapel between 1936 and 1939, and the site was listed by UNESCO in 1997.
- - The macromural inaugurated. The opening of Pachuca se Pinta in colonia Palmitas. Hidalgo, 31 August 2015. The Germen Crew painted the hillside with the residents rather than for them.
- - Painted houses at Palmitas. Colour running across the fronts of the hillside houses. Pachuca, Hidalgo, 2015. The colours were designed to read as one image only from across the valley.
- - The hillside from below. The macromural seen from the streets of the neighbourhood. Palmitas, Pachuca, Hidalgo, 2015. Up close the individual houses read as blocks of flat colour.
- - Crowds at the opening. People gathered for the inauguration of the macromural. Pachuca, Hidalgo, 31 August 2015. The project was funded through a federal social programme.
- - Palmitas painted. A section of the painted neighbourhood. Pachuca, Hidalgo, 2015. Around 200 houses were included in the scheme.
- - Colour across the slope. The macromural running over the contour of the hill. Palmitas, Pachuca, Hidalgo, 2015. Pachuca is a mining town, and Palmitas sits high on its edge.
- - The finished macromural. The completed painting seen across the valley. Pachuca, Hidalgo, 2015. It was reported at the time as one of the largest works of its kind in the country.
- - A state visit under the murals. A meeting with the Prime Minister of Romania at the National Palace. Mexico City, 28 October 2015. Rivera's stairway is the backdrop for most state receptions in the building.
- - The Romanian visit. Another view of the meeting at the National Palace. Mexico City, 28 October 2015. The palace has been the seat of government on the same site since the Mexica period.
- - Painted structures at Fuentes Brotantes. Painting applied to structures of different sizes on the Morelos esplanade. Fuentes Brotantes, Tlalpan, Mexico City, 2015. The park takes its name from springs that once fed the southern city.
- - Bellas Artes at night. The Palace of Fine Arts lit after dark. Mexico City, 2015. Inside are murals by Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, Tamayo and González Camarena on one floor.
- - Painted wall at Zipolite. Graffiti on the Oaxaca coast between Puerto Escondido and the beaches at Mazunte. Photographed 2015. Zipolite has been a low-key coastal settlement since the 1970s.
- - The Cabañas from the patio. The Instituto Cabañas seen from its central courtyard. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. The building was a hospice and orphanage from 1810 until 1980.
- - Robocop Wants U. Graffiti on a wall of the La Margarita housing estate. Puebla, 2015. Housing estate walls are painted without commission and repainted without notice.
- - Orozco's mechanical horse. A painted horse built of machine parts, part of the Cabañas cycle. Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. Orozco used the horse to stand for what the Spanish brought, animal and machine at once.
- - In the Cabañas chapel. Orozco's painting on the walls and vaults of the former hospice chapel. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. Orozco died in 1949, which puts his work in the public domain in Mexico.
- - The two-headed horse. Orozco's two-headed Spanish horse in the Cabañas cycle. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. The doubled head reads as conquest arriving in two forms at once.
- - The People and its Leaders. Orozco's ceiling mural in the congress chamber of the Palacio de Gobierno, showing the signing of the laws abolishing slavery. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. Hidalgo signed the abolition decree in Guadalajara in 1810.
- - Politicians always promising. A panel of the Cabañas cycle showing figures Orozco painted with open contempt. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. Orozco was the least celebratory of the muralists and mistrusted every side.
- - Riding the open seas. A panel from the Cabañas cycle. Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. The chapel holds 57 painted surfaces across walls, vaults and dome.
- - The old world meets the new. A panel of the conquest sequence in the Cabañas cycle. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. Orozco painted the meeting as violence rather than encounter.
- - The horse of machine parts. Another view of Orozco's mechanical horse, standing for the changes the Spanish brought. Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. Orozco had lost his left hand in an accident with gunpowder as a young man.
- - The unknown, arriving on horseback. Orozco's two-headed horse, painted for the arrival of an animal no one in the Americas had seen. Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2015. Horses reached Mexico with Cortés in 1519.
- - Artes - Murales de la SEP (22/07/2015). Canal Once's Artes covers the murals of the SEP. The cycle covers more than a hundred panels across two courtyards.
- - Murales- Palacio de Bellas Artes. INBAL presents the Bellas Artes murals. The building holds work by Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros and Tamayo in one space.
- - ACERCA del Patrimonio / Renato Paperetti (México). A cultural centre session on heritage with Renato Paperetti. Mural conservation is discussed internationally as a shared technical problem.
- - Piezas clave: Del Porfirismo a la Revolución. INAH TV presents a key piece running from the Porfiriato to the Revolution. Muralism took the Revolution as its founding subject.
- - Piezas clave: Retablo de la Independencia. INAH TV presents the Retablo de la Independencia as a key piece. The mural narrates the independence struggle across a single wall.
- - From the photography archive. An old photograph of Mexico City held by the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía. Photographed 2016. The MAF holds close to a million images of the city.
- - Another image from the MAF. An archival photograph of the city from the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía. Photographed 2016. The museum occupies a colonial building on Calle República de Guatemala.
- - Barbara Kruger at Metro Bellas Artes. The exhibition Empatía installed in the metro station. Mexico City, 2016. The station corridors have been used as a gallery since the 1990s.
- - A panel of the Central Library mosaic. Part of Juan O'Gorman's stone mosaic on the university library. Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, 2016. O'Gorman used only natural coloured stone, so the walls have never needed repainting.
- - A third MAF photograph. An archival image of the capital from the photography archive museum. Photographed 2016. The archive holds negatives running from the nineteenth century onwards.
- - A visitor in the old centre. A tourist in the middle of the historic district. Mexico City, 2016. The centre was inscribed by UNESCO in 1987 along with Xochimilco.
- - Canto a la tierra (documental). A documentary on Canto a la tierra at Chapingo. The former hacienda chapel is now part of an agricultural university.
- - Museo Mural Diego Rivera. INBAL presents the Museo Mural Diego Rivera. The museum was built specifically to house the relocated Alameda mural.
- - Taller de marcos del CENCROPAM. INBAL films the frame workshop at its conservation centre. Supporting trades are part of what keeps a national collection intact.
- - Taller de artes decorativas y aplicadas. CENCROPAM. INBAL films its decorative and applied arts workshop. Conservation covers far more than the painted surface.
- - Espacios INBA museos. Museo de Arte Moderno. INBAL presents the Museo de Arte Moderno. The museum holds easel work by the muralists alongside their contemporaries.
- - Mural "La reforma y la caída del imperio". The Museo Nacional de Historia presents La reforma y la caída del imperio. The mural covers the Reform War and the fall of Maximilian.
- - The Juárez memorial chamber. A commemorative ceremony for the 211th anniversary of Benito Juárez's birth. Mexico City, 2017. Juárez died in the National Palace in 1872, and the rooms he used are kept as a memorial.
- - Conservación Preventiva a Murales del INBA. INBAL covers preventive conservation of its murals. Humidity, salts and building movement are the constant threats.
- - La Aurora Del Muro | Cortometraje Documental.. A short documentary titled La Aurora del Muro. Recovery of women muralists' work is comparatively recent scholarship.
- - Firma de Convenio con el CENCROPAM para la restauración de los murales de la Biblioteca Octavio Paz. The University of Guadalajara signs a restoration agreement with the national conservation centre. Orozco's major Guadalajara cycles are the university's responsibility.
- - A mask on the Bellas Artes facade. A carved mask on the front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Mexico City, 2018. The exterior is Italian marble in an art nouveau design, and the interior is art deco, because the build was interrupted by the Revolution.
- - The mascarón at Bellas Artes. A large carved head on the palace frontage. Mexico City, 2018. Adamo Boari began the building in 1904 and Federico Mariscal finished it in 1934.
- - A mural for Cuernavaca. A public wall opposite the local tourism offices showing the region's history, culture and wildlife. Calzada Leandro Valle Oriente, Cuernavaca, Morelos, 2018. Rivera also painted Cuernavaca, in the Palacio de Cortés, in 1930.
- - Casa Rivera. The front of a restaurant named for the painter, showing reproductions of his work alongside its menu. Photographed 2018. Rivera was born in Guanajuato in 1886 and died in Mexico City in 1957.
- - Capilla Riveriana canto a la tierra. INBAL presents the Riveran chapel and its song to the earth. Rivera painted the chapel at Chapingo between 1925 and 1927.
- - Restauración del Mural "El pueblo demanda salud" de Diego Rivera en el Centro Médico "La raza". INBAL restores Rivera's El pueblo demanda salud. Restoration of a Rivera requires the rights holder's consent as well as technical skill.
- - Restauración de murales de Roberto Montenegro en el CENCROPAM. INBAL restores murals by Roberto Montenegro at its conservation centre. Montenegro was among the first painters brought into the Vasconcelos programme.
- - Restauración del mural "El árbol de la ciencia" de Roberto Montenegro. INBAL restores Montenegro's El árbol de la ciencia. Early murals used experimental techniques that aged badly.
- - El Proyecto Vasconcelos y el nacionalismo (Biografía, Historia, Contexto y más). An account of the Vasconcelos project and nationalism. The programme aimed to build a shared national narrative through images.
- - Itinerario - Carlos Mérida. Retrato escrito. Canal Once's Itinerario covers Carlos Mérida. Mérida was Guatemalan by birth and worked in Mexico in a geometric idiom.
- - Itinerario - Aurora Reyes: una vida en el arte 1908-1985. Canal Once covers Aurora Reyes and her life in art from 1908 to 1985. She is described as the first recognised Mexican woman muralist.
- - Itinerario - Murales de Aurora Reyes. Canal Once's Itinerario covers the murals of Aurora Reyes. Her Atentado a las maestras rurales is among the movement's strongest images of violence against women.
- - The Pegasus outside Bellas Artes. One of the winged horse sculptures in front of the palace. Mexico City, 2019. The four Pegasi are by the Catalan sculptor Agustí Querol and stood on the Zócalo before they came here.
- - Especiales del Once - Arte urbano, ¿los nuevos muralistas mexicanos? (10/07/2019). Canal Once asks whether urban artists are the new muralists. Street art in Mexico City claims descent from the movement.
- - D Todo - Exposición Dr. Atl (05/08/2019). Canal Once's D Todo covers a Dr Atl exhibition. Gerardo Murillo took the Nahuatl name Atl and taught several of the muralists.
- - #ContigoEnLaDistancia: Espacios INBAL museos. Museo Mural Diego Rivera. INBAL presents the Museo Mural Diego Rivera during a period of closure. Virtual tours kept collections accessible when buildings were shut.
- - Mural de JOrge González Camarena en 2 minutos. The Museo Nacional de Historia presents a Jorge González Camarena mural in two minutes. Short museum films are how much of this work reaches audiences.
- - “Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central”. A museum presentation of Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central. The mural was moved after the 1985 earthquake damaged the hotel that held it.
- - Diego Rivera y su mural "Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central".. INBAL presents Rivera and his Alameda mural. The painting includes Posada's Catrina walking arm in arm with the artist as a boy.
- - Documental: Arquitectura de un sueño / Museo Mural Diego Rivera. INBAL presents Arquitectura de un sueño at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera. The museum's own architecture was designed around the mural's dimensions.
- - Documental "Exhibición de 1956" | Museo Mural Diego Rivera. INBAL presents a documentary on the 1956 exhibition at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera. Rivera lived from 8 December 1886 to 24 November 1957.
- - Diego Rivera y la experiencia en la URSS | Museo Mural Diego Rivera. INBAL covers Rivera and his experience in the Soviet Union. His political commitments shaped both his commissions and his losses.
- - Los murales del Patio Chico de San Ildefonso. The Museo de la Luz presents the murals of the Patio Chico at San Ildefonso. The building holds work by several of the movement's founders side by side.
- - Desde las salas- Retablo de la Independencia. The Museo Nacional de Historia presents the Retablo de la Independencia from its galleries. Chapultepec Castle holds a substantial mural collection.
- - De la larga Noche Triste de Diego Rivera en los murales de Palacio Nacional. The Templo Mayor museum examines Rivera's treatment of the Noche Triste in his murals. Rivera painted the conquest and its aftermath across the Palacio Nacional stairway.
- - Desde las salas: mural de David Alfaro Siqueiros. The Museo Nacional de Historia presents a Siqueiros mural from its galleries. He was jailed from 1960 to spring 1964 for criticising the president and organising worker protests.
- - Juan O'Gorman: El Retablo de la Independencia. Charla con la Mtra. María Estela Eguiarte.. The Diego Rivera studio museum hosts a talk on Juan O'Gorman's Retablo de la Independencia. O'Gorman worked as both architect and muralist.
- - Centenario SEP - Creación de la SEP: inicios del proyecto de la Escuela Mexicana (21/10/2021). Canal Once marks the centenary of the education ministry and the beginnings of the project. The ministry building itself became the movement's first major commission.
- - El proyecto artístico y cultural de la Secretaría de Educación Pública (1921-1946). The Museo Nacional de San Carlos presents the artistic and cultural project of the education ministry. State patronage created the conditions the movement depended on.
- - Colegio de San Ildefonso. La UNAM responde 390. TV UNAM answers questions about the Colegio de San Ildefonso. Rivera's Creación of 1922 was his first state-funded mural and was painted in the building.
- - El edificio de la SEP. Historia, arte y cultura (24/11/2021). Canal Once covers the history, art and culture of the SEP building. Rivera painted the ministry courtyards from September 1922 to 1928.
- - Historia de los murales de Ciudad Universitaria - Expreso de la Mañana. A report on the history of the Ciudad Universitaria murals. The campus was inscribed as a World Heritage listing in 2007.
- - Mural La Revolución - MNCM. The Museo Nacional de las Culturas presents its Revolution mural. Museums commissioned murals as part of their own displays.
- - La Kalle es Nuestra, third edition. Part of the walls painted during the third year of the street art festival made by and for women. Photographed 2022. Women-only paint festivals became common in Mexican cities through the 2010s.
- - The Central Library lit for 25N. The mosaic-covered library at Ciudad Universitaria floodlit orange for the day against violence towards women. Mexico City, 2022. Juan O'Gorman covered all four faces in natural stone mosaic between 1949 and 1952.
- - The water and life caravan at the university. Members of the caravan during their visit to Ciudad Universitaria. Mexico City, 2022. The caravan travelled to protest against water contamination and dispossession.
- - The caravan at the Central Library. Marchers setting out from the library at Ciudad Universitaria. Mexico City, 2022. The library's mosaic covers about 4,000 square metres and uses stone from across the country.
- - "Dios no existe" | Conoce la historia del polémico mural pintado por Diego Rivera. Azteca Noticias covers the history of a controversial mural. Public art in Mexico continues to provoke political argument.
- - Conferencia "Mujer-territorio en murales de Francisco Eppens", impartida por la Dra. Ana Garduño.. The Diego Rivera studio museum hosts a conference on woman and territory in murals by Francisco Eppens. Eppens worked in mosaic on the university campus.
- - Murales de Antonio Gonzalez Orozco. The Museo Nacional de Historia presents murals by Antonio González Orozco. Later muralists continued working in Chapultepec into the 1960s.
- - Itinerario - Artes de México (2009). El otro muralismo. Canal Once's Itinerario covers the other muralism. Artists outside the three great names have been steadily reassessed.
- - Diego Rivera, pintor | documental. A documentary on Diego Rivera as a painter. His output ran from Cubist work in Paris to the state murals that made his name.
- - 100 AÑOS DE MURALISMO UNIVERSITARIO. LA UNAM RESPONDE 563. TV UNAM marks a hundred years of university muralism. The National University commissioned murals throughout the twentieth century.
- - OROZCO EN SAN ILDEFONSO: CUANDO EL ARTE TAMBIÉN ES REVOLUCIONARIO. UNAM Global TV covers Orozco at San Ildefonso. Orozco died in 1949, before the 1952 copyright cutoff, so his work is in the public domain in Mexico.
- - 100 años de Muralismo, serie documental. La UNAM responde 592. TV UNAM opens a documentary series marking a hundred years of muralism. José Vasconcelos was appointed Minister of Public Education in 1921 by Álvaro Obregón and conceived a state mural programme for a largely illiterate country.
- - MURALISMO, México reinterpretado. UNAM Chicago presents muralism as Mexico reinterpreted. The movement was exported through Mexican artists working abroad in the 1930s.
- - 01.- 100 años de muralismo en México" (visión académica) | Mirador Universitario. The first part of an academic series on a hundred years of muralism. The movement weakened after 1940 as the state's cultural priorities changed.
- - 02.- 100 años de muralismo en México" (visión estudiantil) | Mirador Universitario. The second part of the same series, given from a student perspective. Muralism is still taught as the founding moment of modern Mexican art.
- - 03.- 100 años de muralismo en México" (Creadores) | Mirador Universitario. The third part of the series, featuring working artists. Contemporary muralists position themselves in relation to the 1920s programme.
- - BIBLIOTECA CENTRAL, LA HISTORIA DE MÉXICO PLASMADA EN MUROS. UNAM Global TV presents the Central Library and its murals. Juan O'Gorman covered the building in stone mosaic rather than paint.
- - BIBLIOTECA CENTRAL, UN EDIFICIO CONVERTIDO EN MURAL O UN MURAL CONVERTIDO EN EDIFICIO. UNAM Global TV asks whether the Central Library is a building turned into a mural. The mosaic uses coloured stones gathered from across the country.
- - El espíritu del 22: un siglo de muralismo en Colegio de San Ildefonso. La UNAM responde 627.. TV UNAM presents the spirit of 1922 and a century of muralism at the Colegio de San Ildefonso. The first state-sponsored project was mounted there when it was the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria.
- - UNAM celebra 100 años del movimiento muralista mexicano. UNAM Global TV marks the centenary of the Mexican mural movement. In 1922 the muralists founded the Sindicato de Obreros Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores, asserting public utility and universal access to art.
- - D Todo - Murales Orozco (14/02/2023). Canal Once's D Todo covers the Orozco murals. He painted at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria between 1922 and 1926.
- - 👨🏽🎨 ¿QUÉ es el MURALISMO MEXICANO? 🇲🇽 | ORIGEN, HISTORIA y CARACTERISTICAS | ✅ RESUMEN COMPLETO. An explainer on what Mexican muralism is and where it came from. The movement began in 1921 under state commission.
- - 🎨MURALISMO MEXICANO historia | Técnicas utilizadas y antecedentes. An explainer on Mexican muralism, its techniques and antecedents. Fresco requires the pigment to be applied while the plaster is still wet.
- - The Olympic Stadium relief. The stadium of the national university, its outer wall carrying Diego Rivera's stone-and-mosaic relief. Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, 2023. Rivera worked the design in coloured volcanic stone so it would not need paint.
- - A child at the fountain. A boy at the edge of a fountain in the national arts centre. Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, 2023. CENART gathers several national art schools on one campus in Coyoacán.
- - Crossing beside the post office. A pedestrian crossing at the side of the Palacio de Correos. Centro Histórico, Mexico City, 2023. The post office was finished in 1907 to a design by Adamo Boari, who also began the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
- - A handcart and a bicycle. A diablero pushing his cart past a cyclist in the old centre. Mexico City, 2023. The diablero and his two-wheeled sack truck are how most goods still move through those streets.
- - The feminist mural. A painted wall in a park that has been claimed as safe ground by the LGBTQ community and by the feminist movement. Photographed 2023. Purple and green are the colours the Mexican feminist movement paints in.
- - Boceto del mural de Francisco I. Madero en el Museo de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec, 1966-1967. The Museo MARCO presents a sketch for a mural of Francisco I. Madero. Preparatory cartoons are separate works and often survive independently.
- - Cazadores de Museos - Museo Vivo del Muralismo (MVM) Murales de la SEP. A museum programme visits the Museo Vivo del Muralismo. New institutions continue to open around the movement.
- - Cazadores de Museos - Palacio Nacional (Parte 1 de 2). A museum programme visits the Palacio Nacional. Rivera painted the stairway from 1929 to 1930 and again in 1935.
- - Tendrá Elena Huerta documental; honrará cineasta vida de artista saltillense. A report on a documentary being made about Elena Huerta. Huerta painted a 450 square metre work described as Mexico's largest mural by a woman.
- - Smurfs on the avenue. A cartoon-figure wall on Avenida Héroes de Nacozari. Puebla, 2024. Borrowed cartoon characters have been part of Mexican graffiti since the 1990s.
- - EstudioJimza in the neighbourhood. A mural by EstudioJimza in colonia 20 de Noviembre. Puebla, 2024. Studio collectives now take commissions that would once have gone to a single painter.
- - Hoardings after the Ayotzinapa protest. Barriers the day after a protest marking ten years since the disappearances, September 2024. Mexico City. Forty-three students from the Ayotzinapa teachers' college disappeared in Iguala in September 2014.
- - A five-hand wall. A mural by Niafase, Heroidea, Desik, Monkeyspe and Funnygraff for the 2022 festival. Puebla, photographed 2024. Large festival walls are commonly divided between several painters working at once.
- - The Arena Puebla facade. The wrestling arena with its whole frontage painted in lucha libre imagery. Puebla, 2024. Arena Puebla opened in 1953 and runs a weekly card.
- - A wall by Dani Bom. A mural in colonia 20 de Noviembre for La Rueda Puebla. Puebla, 2024. Residents are usually consulted on the subject before the wall is painted.
- - The station of filth. A mural by Master Mai outside the railway museum, given that name by the artist himself. Puebla, 2024. The Museo del Ferrocarril occupies the old Puebla station and its yards.
- - A wall on Héroes de Nacozari. One of the painted walls along the avenue. Puebla, 2024. Jesús García Corona, the Héroe de Nacozari, drove a burning train out of a town in Sonora in 1907 and died doing it.
- - The dog by Sekat. A painted dog on Avenida Héroes de Nacozari. Puebla, 2024. Street dogs are a common subject on Mexican neighbourhood walls.
- - YomekHem and OkerWans. A shared wall on Avenida Héroes de Nacozari, painted for the Festival Cultural El Refugio. Puebla, 2024. Tag names rather than legal names are what these walls are signed with.
- - Do not give up. A wall carrying the phrase No te rindas, painted for the 2023 festival. Avenida Héroes de Nacozari, Puebla, 2024. Text pieces sit alongside figurative work on the same run of wall.
- - The Makoygacrew wall. A painted wall credited to Makoygacrew, made for the Festival Cultural El Refugio. Puebla, 2024. Crews rather than individuals take most large festival walls.
- - Alondra López in colonia 20 de Noviembre. A wall intervention made for La Rueda Puebla. Puebla, 2024. La Rueda commissions murals in neighbourhoods rather than in the tourist centre.
- - Painted for a rehabilitation centre. A mural by Warior on the walls of a drug rehabilitation centre, made to raise awareness. Puebla, 2024. Institutions commission murals as a way of making a closed building legible from the street.
- - Azules on Héroes de Nacozari. A mural by Noble, Gramos and Boker along the avenue, painted for the Festival Cultural El Refugio. Puebla, 2024. Municipal culture festivals are now a main commissioner of large-scale wall painting.
- - The iguana. A large painted iguana on Avenida Héroes de Nacozari. Puebla, 2024. Local fauna is a recurring subject in Mexican street murals commissioned by city governments.
- - A wall by Manuel Reyes. A mural on Avenida Héroes de Nacozari painted for the 2023 edition of the festival. Puebla, photographed 2024. Individual artist credit on street walls is a recent and still uneven practice.
- - For the railway museum's anniversary. A mural by davidnoexiste painted to mark the museum's anniversary. Puebla, 2024. The museum holds locomotives from the network nationalised in 1937.
- - Lucek and Elseñor Debronce. A collaborative wall painted for the Festival Cultural El Refugio. Puebla, 2024. Two-artist walls let a figurative painter and a letterer share a surface.
- - Chávez Morado's signature. The signature of José Chávez Morado in the lower left corner of his mural Political Pluralism. Mexico City, 2024. Chávez Morado belonged to the generation that followed the big three and worked into the 1990s.
- - Dragons. Painted dragons across a long wall on Avenida Héroes de Nacozari. Puebla, 2024. The avenue has become a continuous open-air gallery over successive festival years.
- - Azules in detail. A closer view of the same wall by Noble, Gramos and Boker. Avenida Héroes de Nacozari, Puebla, 2024. Aerosol on rendered concrete is the standard surface for this generation of muralists.
- - The boxer. A painted boxer on a wall near the Diagonal Poniente station on RUTA line 2. Puebla, 2024. Transit corridors get painted because they are the walls most people actually pass.
- - The corner at 26 Poniente, close up. Detail of the murals at the junction with Avenida Héroes de Nacozari, painted for El Refugio 2024. Puebla. Festival walls are usually repainted within a few years, so the photograph is the only permanent record.
- - A wall of graffiti. A stretch of continuous painting along the avenue. Puebla, 2024. The wall changes composition each festival year as sections are repainted.
- - The corner at 26 Poniente. Murals wrapping the street corner, painted for the Festival Cultural El Refugio. Puebla, 2024. El Refugio takes its name from the neighbourhood the festival paints.
- - Recorrido virtual por la exposición Diego Rivera. Nueva vida a un mural destruido 1933/1934. The Palacio de Bellas Artes museum offers a virtual tour of a Diego Rivera exhibition. Rivera's easel work is protected in Mexico until 2057.
- - #90AniversarioPBA #Cencropam #Murales. INBAL marks the ninetieth anniversary of the Palacio de Bellas Artes with its conservation centre. Mural conservation is a permanent institutional commitment.
- - Jornada académica “Muralismo mexicano en América Latina” - Primera parte. An academic day on Mexican muralism in Latin America. The Mexican model influenced state art programmes across the continent.
- - Museo Mural Diego Rivera: pasado, presente y futuro. The culture ministry covers the past, present and future of the Museo Mural Diego Rivera. The building exists to hold one painting.
- - ¿Quién era David Alfaro Siqueiros? - El nacimiento del muralismo (28/02/2025). Canal Once asks who David Alfaro Siqueiros was and covers the birth of muralism. Siqueiros lived from 29 December 1896 to 6 January 1974.
- - Recorrido virtual: colección permanente - “México de hoy” (1953).. The Bellas Artes museum offers a virtual tour of México de hoy in its permanent collection. The mural cycle was assembled over several decades.
- - Murales de la SEP recuperan la historia colectiva de una nación. La Jornada reports the SEP murals recovering a nation's collective history. The building remains a working ministry rather than a museum.
- - Historias de vida - Rufino Tamayo. Canal Once's Historias de vida covers Rufino Tamayo. He argued for painting as painting against the muralists' didactic aims.
- - "Liberación", 1963. Jorge González Camarena.. The Bellas Artes museum presents Liberación by Jorge González Camarena from 1963. The second generation of muralists worked well past the movement's supposed decline.
- - The film school entrance. The doorway of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica at CENART. Mexico City, 2025. The CCC was founded in 1975 and moved to the arts centre when it opened in 1994.
- - The national theatre school. The Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral at CENART. Mexico City, 2025. The school traces its line to the 1940s and moved to the arts centre in the 1990s.
- - #CiudadMemoriaYCultura | Mercado Abelardo L. Rodríguez. The Mexico City culture department covers the Mercado Abelardo L. Rodríguez. Painting a working market was a deliberate extension of the movement beyond public buildings.
- - Diálogos sobre muralismo, 120 aniv. Juan O´Gorman. The Museo Nacional de Historia holds a dialogue on muralism for O'Gorman's 120th anniversary. He designed Rivera and Kahlo's studio houses in San Ángel.
- - Nacimiento de nuestra nacionalidad por Rufino Tamayo. The Bellas Artes museum presents Nacimiento de nuestra nacionalidad by Rufino Tamayo. Tamayo kept his distance from the movement's political programme.
- - Ciudad infinita - Muralismo mexicano en la Ciudad de México (06/10/2025). Canal Once surveys Mexican muralism across Mexico City. Mexico has freedom of panorama under Article 148 of its copyright law, so murals visible from public places may be filmed.
- - Perspectivas Históricas - Vasconcelos y sus proyectos educativos (27/10/2025). Canal Once examines Vasconcelos and his educational projects. The mural programme was conceived as public instruction rather than decoration.
- - Fundadores de la Antropología | El muralismo mexicano y el espacio público como lienzo de expresión. INAH TV covers Mexican muralism in its Fundadores de la Antropología series. Anthropology and muralism developed the same nationalist vocabulary in the same decades.
- - "La pintura mural de Mengs", por Javier Jordán de Urríes. The Museo del Prado hosts a lecture on the mural painting of Mengs. European fresco traditions form the technical background the Mexican movement drew on.
- - #MujeresEnLaHistoria | Primera muralista mexicana. The federal government profiles the first Mexican woman muralist. The movement's egalitarian self-description did not extend easily to women.
- - La química y el muralismo mexicano desde una mirada actual El Aleph. Festival de Arte y Ciencia. TV UNAM examines the chemistry of Mexican muralism from a contemporary view. Fresco, encaustic and pyroxylin each present distinct conservation problems.