Tell Me Everything

This is the catalogue of Tell Me Everything, the first major survey of Richard Prince’s work in Latin America, held at Museo Jumex in Mexico City.

The book covers more than four decades, from his late-1970s rephotography to recent pieces, some of them unpublished until now. The exhibition, curated by Jumex chief curator Kit Hammonds with the artist, runs from 26 September 2026 to 7 February 2027 and brings together more than 140 works. It centres on four series Prince has returned to most often: the Cowboys, Girlfriends, Jokes and Cartoons. The book gives the Cowboys and the Jokes their own sections. Eugenio López Alonso, president of Fundación Jumex, writes the foreword, with essays by Hammonds, the art historian Sydney Stutterheim and the painter Rita Ackermann. The title comes from a joke Prince has used many times.

Prince (b. 1949) emerged with the Pictures Generation in late-1970s New York, photographing magazine advertisements and presenting the results as his own pictures. The Cowboys, cropped from Marlboro ads from 1980 on, are the best-known case. The Jokes, one-liners lifted from cartoons and joke books and painted onto monochrome canvases from the mid-1980s, carried the same method into painting. The Guggenheim surveyed his work in 2007 with Spiritual America.