This article explores the “agency of display” by analyzing key moments in the exhibition of popular art in Mexico’s museums from the immediate postrevolutionary period through the neoliberal dismantling of the welfare state. It explores how the consumption of popular art has been rationalized in and through exhibitions to track the shift in state discourses regarding what constitutes citizenship at different historical moments. Situated within contemporary debates over the citizen-consumer, this article shows that popular citizenship and the consumption of popular art have always been linked while also acknowledging that the advent of social liberalism marks a distinct and highly paradoxical transformation of relations of state, society, and economy in Mexico. To that end, the article concludes by analyzing displays of popular art in the revised ethnographic galleries, a temporary exhibition by the Fondo Nacional de Fomento a las Artesanías, and the gift store at the National Museum of Anthropology.

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赋予文化资本主义国家以天赋：在墨西哥的博物馆里消费大众艺术并表演公民身份

本文通过分析从革命后不久到福利国家的新自由主义时期的墨西哥博物馆中流行艺术展览的关键时刻，探索“展示机构”。它探讨了在展览中以及通过展览如何合理化大众艺术的消费，以追踪有关不同历史时刻公民身份构成的国家话语的变化。这篇文章位于关于公民消费者的当代辩论中，它表明，大众公民身份与大众艺术品的消费一直联系在一起，同时也认识到，社会自由主义的到来标志着国家，社会和社会关系的一种独特且高度自相矛盾的转变。墨西哥的经济。为此，