VIDA Y DRAMA: MODERN MEXICAN PRINTS
A one-room survey of Mexican printmaking from the 1920s to the '50s, including lithographs, woodcuts, and drawings by artists such as Diego Rivera, Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as artists from the succeeding generation associated with the Taller de Gráfica Popular, or People's Graphic Workshop. Through Nov. 2. Museum of Fine Arts, 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org
VIVA MEXICO! EDWARD WESTON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
A show that focuses on three years in the career of Edward Weston, one of America's great pioneers of modernist photography, featuring work made in Mexico not only by Weston but by his lover Tina Modotti, his son Brett Weston, and Mexico's great Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Through Nov. 2. Museum of Fine Arts, 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org
SURFLAND: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JONI STERNBACH
Using 19th-century tintype photographic techniques, Sternbach, in her first solo museum show, presents portraits of surfers. Through Oct. 4. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. 866-745-1876, www.pem.org
MARCEL BREUER: DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE
A comprehensive survey of work by the great modernist architect and designer the first to give equal weighting to all aspects of Breuer's work, from his famous chair designs to his houses and major public buildings (such as the Whitney Museum in New York). Through July 19. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence. 401-454-6400, www.risdmuseum.org
SEBASTIAN SMEE
