# The Life Force: Portraits from the Amparo and Manuel Collection

A museum exhibition of 45 portraits from Mexico City's Amparo & Manuel Foundation collection, exploring Eros and Thanatos and the body. Tam Gryn curated the show, which follows its New York showing as the second in the US. It runs through Art Week.

- Type: Museum
- When: Sunday 15 November 2026 until Nov 15 – Aug 22
- Where: Museum of Sex Miami, 2200 NW 24th Ave, Miami, FL 33142
- Part of: [Miami Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/miami-art-week)
- Event's own page: https://www.amma.art/en/exhibitions/54-the-life-force-intimate-portraits-from-the-amparo-museum-of-sex-april-and-november-2026./
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/the-life-force-portraits-from-the-amparo-and-manuel-collection

## From the organiser

45 portraits from the collection of Mexico City's Amparo & Manuel Foundation, on Eros and Thanatos and the body, curated by Tam Gryn. It is the second US showing, after New York. On view through Art Week.

## Also on Sunday 15 November

- **Until Apr 11, 2027** · [Frozen Gestures](https://artweekguide.com/events/frozen-gestures) — Museum at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale. An exhibition at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, part of Miami Art Week 2026, tracing expressionistic sculpture from Abstract Expressionism to the present. It includes Urs Fischer's melting wax sculpture *Julian*. Bonnie Clearwater curated the show.
- **Until Apr 11, 2027** · [Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love](https://artweekguide.com/events/ragnar-kjartansson-sunday-without-love) — Museum at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale. A room-size projection at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale shows Ragnar Kjartansson's single-channel video of a 2025 performance on Italy's Renon Plateau. He and nine performers in traditional costume sing a chorus adapted from a Rocko Schamoni song, over and over.