Art Review
Frida-Mania Hits MoMA
A collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera’s costume designer, this exhibition is an irresistible marketing opportunity at best.
Frida Kahlo
Art Review
The Canonization of Frida Kahlo
An exhibition blasts apart any crystallized conception of the artist until no easily digestible singular figure emerges.
News
Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
“El sueño (La cama)” (1940), a surreal rumination on dreams, nightmares, and the afterlife, sold for $54.7M at Sotheby's.
News
This Frida Kahlo Painting Could Shatter Auction Records
Four years after a Kahlo self-portrait became the most expensive work by a Latin American artist, “The dream (The bed)” (1940) could set a new benchmark.
Book Review
The Friendship That Transformed Frida Kahlo
The cover of a new book draws you in for Kahlo, but you will stay for Mary Reynolds, the innovative bookbinder and partner of Marcel Duchamp.
News
A New Frida Kahlo Museum Is Coming to Mexico City
The forthcoming Museo Casa Kahlo will intimately explore the renowned artist’s early life and familial relationships.
Art
Frida Kahlo’s Elegy to Heartache
Despite the fact that most of humanity has shared the devastating emotional turmoil of a breakup, the topic is strangely elusive in the history of art.
News
Frida Kahlo Corporation Sues Amazon Vendors
The company that licenses the artist’s name and image says online merchants have manufactured and sold products without authorization.
Film
Sundance Documentaries Pay Tribute to Female Trailblazers
This year’s Sundance Film Festival offered an array of documentaries spanning cultural vantages and historic eras, about women who span the globe.
News
Did Diego Rivera Help Frida Kahlo Take Her Own Life?
So claims a grandson of Rivera in a new documentary, but scholars remain skeptical.
News
Mexican Artists Take Over Rock Center For Day of the Dead
A catrina of Frida Kahlo, colorful alebrijes, and José Guadalupe Posada’s satirical skeletons are among the unmissable works on view.
News
Collector Who Says He Burned Frida Kahlo Work for NFT Under Investigation
Martín Mobarak may have broken Mexican law, but he burned the proof.