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Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for seniors and students. Children 12 and under are free when accompanied by an adult. is proud to be a North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM). We also participate in Mass Cultural Council’s EBT Card to Culture, the most comprehensive effort of its kind in the nation to open doors to arts and cultural experiences for low-income families. We offer free admission t

o EBT cardholders through Museums for All, a national access program, that encourages individuals of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum habits. EBT and WIC cardholders and their families receive free admission. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Museum offers free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and their families through Blue Star Museums.

New exhibitions, summer classes, and more this June!--
06/01/2026

New exhibitions, summer classes, and more this June!

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Final Weekend of Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art. Closes Sunday May 31, stop by before it c...
05/30/2026

Final Weekend of Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art.

Closes Sunday May 31, stop by before it closes.

Last week to see Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art before it closes Sunday, May 31!The exhibi...
05/28/2026

Last week to see Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art before it closes Sunday, May 31!

The exhibition features works by contemporary Mexican artists whose practices primarily engage questions of freedom of expression, history, and social justice and serve as public channels of dissent. Through sculpture, installation, performance-based documentation, textiles, and printmaking, the exhibition considers how artists reflect on Indigenous knowledge, collective memory, and contemporary social contexts.

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Renata Cassiano Alvarez presents sculptures from her ongoing series Siempre Voy a Volver (“I Will Always Return”), along...
05/26/2026

Renata Cassiano Alvarez presents sculptures from her ongoing series Siempre Voy a Volver (“I Will Always Return”), alongside related works that reflect on memory, migration, and the emotional pull of home. Using intimate materials and hand-built processes, Alvarez creates sculptural forms marked by touch, wear, and repetition. The works suggest bodies, vessels, and domestic gestures without resolving into literal representation, allowing absence and longing to remain central to their meaning.

Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art closes May 31.

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05/24/2026

Still thinking about the outfits from the Spring Gala ✨

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Adela Goldbard is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator whose work spans video, performance, sculptu...
05/22/2026

Adela Goldbard is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator whose work spans video, performance, sculpture, textiles, and socially engaged art. Through collaborative projects and community-based practice, often in Oaxaca, Mexico, her work explores culture, history, violence, and decolonial methodologies.

See more in our exhibition Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art, on view through May 31.

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La línea II (Night Vision series), 2025
Adela Goldbard in collaboration with Alejandra Sánchez Salgado & Xochitl Ruiz Nuñez (needlefelting workshop, San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca)
Needle felted textile
36.6 in.

Upcoming exhibition, Vanishing Ecologies: Speculative Futures.Opening June 11, 2026.This exhibition explores artistic re...
05/21/2026

Upcoming exhibition, Vanishing Ecologies: Speculative Futures.
Opening June 11, 2026.

This exhibition explores artistic responses to the Anthropocene, the era in which human activity has reshaped the planet, and imagines what might follow it.

Through painting, sculpture, installation, and time-based media, artists confront climate change, mass extinction, and the lingering shadow of the post-atomic age, while probing the accelerating entanglement of technology and time.

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Hovering Close to Zero: Still #9
Rachel Berwick
3-D printed resin film still, stainless steel
43" X 13" X 10"

I am drawn to materials that can break, not because of their fragility, but because of their truth. Ceramics is honest i...
05/19/2026

I am drawn to materials that can break, not because of their fragility, but because of their truth. Ceramics is honest in its transformations; it reveals every mark and every mistake," - Renata Cassiano Alvarez.

Renata Cassiano Alvarez presents sculptures from her ongoing series Siempre Voy a Volver (“I Will Always Return”), alongside related works that reflect on memory, migration, and the emotional pull of home. Using intimate materials and hand-built processes, Alvarez creates sculptural forms marked by touch, wear, and repetition. The works suggest bodies, vessels, and domestic gestures without resolving into literal representation, allowing absence and longing to remain central to their meaning.

Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art on view through May 31.

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Exquisite Sense of Dilemma, 2024
Renata Cassiano Alvarez
Ceramic, gold, and black luster
14 x 10 x 4 in.

Two prints by Mario Guzmán, an Oaxaca City–based printmaker and founder of the Colectivo Subterráneos, whose work uses p...
05/18/2026

Two prints by Mario Guzmán, an Oaxaca City–based printmaker and founder of the Colectivo Subterráneos, whose work uses printmaking as a tool for activism, public dialogue, and community engagement.

Working primarily in linocut and woodblock, Guzmán creates bold, large-scale prints designed for the streets, wheat-pasted onto walls and shared beyond traditional gallery spaces. Alongside artists Emilio González, Eric Pozos, Giselle Mayo Carillo, Enrique Mojo, and El Pi**he Grabador, the collective continues the long tradition of socially engaged Mexican printmaking: art as education, protest, and collective resistance.

Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art on view through May 31.

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(Left)
Woman and 2 creatures
Mario Guzmán
Linocut on paper
14.5 x 32.5 in.

(Right)
Palestina Libre, 2024
Mario Guzmán
Linocut on paper
34 x 11 in.

Needle-felted in wool by Adela Goldbard, this piece revisits the events of June 19, 2016, in Asunción Nochixtlán, where ...
05/16/2026

Needle-felted in wool by Adela Goldbard, this piece revisits the events of June 19, 2016, in Asunción Nochixtlán, where teachers and parents protesting education reforms were met with violent police repression.

Burning buses, tear gas, stones, and resistance became part of a confrontation that left at least six dead and more than 100 injured. The charred buses later stood as symbols of memory, grief, and defiance in Oaxaca.

To see more powerful works like this visit our current exhibition Resistance: Cultural and Political Narratives in Mexican Art, on view through May 31.

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Nochixtlán I, 2018-2019
Adela Goldbard in collaboration with Marcela Ortega (needle-felting workshop in San Augustin, Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico)
Needle felted wool
35 x 47 in.

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