Mexico Guide
Mexico City
Museo Rufino Tamayo
Opening time: Tues– Sun 10am–6pm
Price: M$15, free on Sun
Website: www.museotamayo.org
Hidden among trees across the street from the Museum of Modern Art is the Museo Rufino Tamayo, another fine collection of modern art – this one with an international focus. The modernist structure was built by the artist Rufino Tamayo, whose work in murals and on smaller projects was far more abstract and less political than the Big Three, though he was their approximate contemporary and enjoys a reasonable amount of international fame. There is much of his own work here, and exhibits of his techniques and theories, but also a fairly impressive collection of European and American twentieth-century art – most of it from Tamayo's private collection. Artists represented may include Picasso, Miró, Magritte, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, though not all of these are on permanent display. First-rate contemporary international exhibits usually find their way here and sometimes take over the space of parts of the permanent collection.