Image: Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City
Museo Nacional de Arte has directed attention to Leopoldo Méndez’s ‘Alfabetización’ in a post framed around International Literacy Day, inviting visitors to see the work in its permanent exhibition.
Published on September 8, 2026, the museum’s message identifies reading and writing as tools of freedom, dignity and human rights. That formulation gives Méndez’s work a precise focus for the observance, tying literacy to the exercise of rights and the affirmation of human dignity.
The museum names the permanent exhibition in its visitor direction as ‘Arte y visualidad en el México’. Méndez is identified as the artist of ‘Alfabetización’, the work selected for the occasion.
