Conflict, Calaveras, and Context: An Exhibition Event Review at the Met

ABSTRACT On Friday September 27, 2024, The Metropolitan Museum of Art held an exhibition event entitled “Celebration and Resistance: Mexican Prints at the Vanguard,” a 1 h public program which accompanied the museum's temporary exhibition– Mexican Prints at the Vanguard (September 12, 2024–January 5, 2025). The goal of the event was to explore the tradition of printmaking in Mexico and its use in the spread of political ideology before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). While the event provided significant sociohistorical background on many of the exhibited artworks, discourse at the event lacked in‐depth discussion of Indigeneity as well as how political ideologies spread by print mediums relate to and impact Indigenous peoples and communities within Mexico. However, the event proved to be an effective advertising strategy for other upcoming Hispanic Heritage Month events at The Met, and an excellent example of bilingual Spanish‐English public programming.