Tour Publico en Espanol - Unsettling the City: Julie Mehretu's Epigraph, Damascus

Saint Louis Art Museum is hosting a Spanish-language public tour of Unsettling the City on Sunday, November 15. The tour focuses on Julie Mehretu's Epigraph, Damascus, a piece that anchors the exhibition. If you're a Spanish speaker and want to walk through the show with a guide, this is your window.

Unsettling the City is a major exhibition that opened on November 6, 2026, and runs through August 15, 2027, so there's plenty of time to see it if you can't make this specific date. The tour itself is a public one, meaning it's open to anyone interested in Mehretu's work and the broader exhibition. The museum is located in Forest Park, and admission is free, which is one of the best things about visiting.

For a bit of context on the space, the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is a cornerstone of the city's cultural life. It draws up to half a million visitors a year and holds more than 34,000 objects, including the world's largest Max Beckmann collection. Its roots go back to 1879, when the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts was founded as part of Washington University. After the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the museum moved to Cass Gilbert's Palace of Fine Arts, split from the university in 1909 to become a public City Art Museum, and was renamed the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1972. A 2013 expansion by architect Sir David Chipperfield added over 224,000 square feet of gallery space.

Admission is free through a subsidy from the cultural tax district for St. Louis City and County, so you can come for the tour and then spend as much time as you like with the rest of the collection. The tour is on Sunday, November 15, and the exhibition stays up until August 15, 2027.