2026

DESIGN MUSEUM HOUSTON presents The Pre-Hispanic Effects in the Modern World, an exhibition that examines how the movement influenced 20th-century art and architecture through six contrasting symbolic examples.

Whether through its relationship with Art Deco, the mural movement, or its lesser-known influence on modernism and postmodernism in the second half of the 20th century, each of the examples relates in a different way and proposes new optics and perspectives for study.

In 2009, the DMH presented to over 30,000 visitors the origins and development of the movement, which originated in 1889 with the Mexican Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle and was further supported by the Mexican Revolutionary movement, as part of the exhibition ‘THE PREHISPANIC AND THE MODERN.’

THE PRE-HISPANIC EFFECTS IN THE MODERN WORLD is based on a study by Mauricio Rodriguez Anza and produced by Vivianne Falco.

Funded in part by THE CITY OF HOUSTON through HOUSTON ARTS ALLIANCE.

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