Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate the rich culture and history of the Hispanic and Latinx community through art, talks, digital content, and more.

Highlights Art Events Read and Watch
An oil painting by Botero featuring a group of male musicians wearing bowler caps accompanied by a female guitarist playing for a small dancing couple.

Highlights

Composite image of four figural works by hispanic/latinx artists.

Index of Latinx and Hispanic American Artists

Explore publications dedicated to Latinx and Hispanic American artists in The Met's Watson Library. 

A film still of a person holding a photograph of Mendieta

Remembering Ana Mendieta

Two filmmakers reflect on the pioneering artist, whose feminist thought informed her understanding of the natural world.

Art

See work by Latinx and Hispanic artists across the Museum.

A stone Maya stelae depicting a warrior queen on view in The Met's Great Hall.

Maya Rulers in the Great Hall

See two sculptures that celebrate the role of Maya artists in the creation of iconographies of power.

A monochrome Cubist woman painted by picasso on a vertical canvas against a dark green background.

Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn

See a little-known chapter of the Spanish painter's Cubist period in Gallery 830.

Events

Mark Hispanic/Latinx Month with these upcoming programs. See a full list of programming here.

A group of Members admire a statue in a brightly lit gallery

Highlights Tours in Spanish/ Obras destacadas en español

Diariamente a las 11:15 am y los martes y jueves a las 2:15 pm, se ofrecen visitas guiadas de Obras Maestras para descubrir la diversa Colección del Museo que abarca más de 5000 años de arte y cultura. Las visitas guiadas parten del Patio de Vélez Blanco. El número de personas por grupo es limitado: entrada por orden de llegada hasta agotar la capacidad. 

Daily at 11:15 am and on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:15 pm discover works of art that span 5,000 years of art and culture across the Museum’s diverse collection. Tours depart from the Vélez Blanco Patio, Gallery 534. Space is limited: first come, first served.

The four members of the Catalyst Quartet stand in various poses against a silver metallic background.

Catalyst Quartet: Lost and Found in the Galleries

On September 29 and 30, join Catalyst Quartet (MetLiveArts' ’23-’24 Quartet in Residence) for a special edition of their acclaimed Lost and Found in the Galleries series, popping up in the Museum to help you discover the music that history has pushed to the margins.

Photograph of a smiling, bearded man in a white hat, who wears glasses and an orange-, yellow-, and grey-patterned shirt, and uses both hands to play a drum, against an orange-yellow background.

A Musical Celebration of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month with Javier Diaz

On Friday, October 6, enjoy Afro-Cuban folkloric music, including bembé, rumba, son montuno, and batá drumming for free on The Met Plaza.

Read and Watch

Learn more about the Hispanic and Latinx artists that shaped art history.

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Dancers from Ballet Hispánico perform at the courtyard level of the Robert Lehmann Wing at The Met Fifth Avenue.

Ballet Hispánico: Buscando a Juan

For this MetLiveArts commission, Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro reacts to the ideas presented in the exhibit Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter with Buscando a Juan (“Looking for Juan”) and explores the “sancocho”—literally, mixed soup—of cultures and diasporas.

September 19
Cream plate with a rim painted with watery motifs in black, including swirls, registers of droplets, and waterlily vegetation.

The God from the Black Water

Maya artists mined a rich body of mythological lore to visualize their gods in imaginative ways.

Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal Nov 14, 2022
An arching mosaic curtain depicting snow-capped peaks behind fir trees and topped with a proscenium

"A Veritable Poem of Light": Tiffany's Mosaic Curtain in Mexico City

Tiffany Studios completed significant commissions across Latin America in the twentieth century, yet they remain surprisingly understudied.
Juliana Fagua-Arias Oct 6, 2022

Image credit: Dancing in Colombia  by Fernando Botero (Colombian, 1932–2023). Oil on canvas. Anonymous Gift, 1983. 1983.251 © Fernando Botero