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Frida Kahlo

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Mexican Artists Take Over Rock Center For Day of the Dead

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 30, 2022October 31, 2022

A catrina of Frida Kahlo, colorful alebrijes, and José Guadalupe Posada’s satirical skeletons are among the unmissable works on view.

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Collector Who Says He Burned Frida Kahlo Work for NFT Under Investigation

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

Martín Mobarak may have broken Mexican law, but he burned the proof.

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Frida, The Musical Is Coming to Broadway in 2024

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

The musical is the first such telling of Kahlo’s life that has been sanctioned by her family, and draws in part on details from Intimate Frida, a book by her niece Isolda P. Kahlo.

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A Brief History of Women’s Eyebrows in Art

Avatar photo by Isabella Segalovich June 23, 2022July 11, 2022

Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles.

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Mexican Modernism Was More Than Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

by Rosa Boshier March 14, 2022March 15, 2022

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism feeds into the repeated use of Kahlo and Rivera’s work, and the mythology of their romantic relationship, as shorthand for an entire era.

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Why Frida Kahlo Still Isn’t a Great Woman Artist According to the Market

Avatar photo by Hall W. Rockefeller November 24, 2021November 29, 2021

Greatness, in this new golden age of wealth and vanity collecting, is inextricably linked to money, selling prices, and auction results.

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Frida Kahlo Portrait Hammers at $31 Million, Shatters Records for Latin American Art

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 16, 2021November 17, 2021

The sale of “Diego y yo” (1949) skyrocketed past Kahlo’s previous auction record, $8 million.

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New Frida Kahlo Monograph Moves Beyond Individual Genius Narrative

Avatar photo by Joanna Garcia Cheran September 27, 2021September 27, 2021

Three art historians put the focus back on Kahlo’s artistic output.

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Enough with the Ableist Worship of Frida Kahlo

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

Emily Rapp Black’s new book cuts though self-serving interpretations of disabled bodies like Kahlo’s, which have long emphasized the comfort or pleasure of others.

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An Indigenous Perspective on Frida Kahlo

Avatar photo by Joanna Garcia Cheran July 4, 2021July 13, 2022

Kahlo’s aesthetic reflects the vogue of her time: the mythologizing of a homogenized Indigenous past afforded by her proximity to whiteness and wealth.

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The Artists Who Found Inspiration in Isolation

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 20, 2020March 27, 2020

In the age of “social distancing,” reflecting on works by a number of artists who found themselves isolated, detained, or bed-ridden for various reasons.

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At a Frida Kahlo Show in Brooklyn, the Personal Is Commercial (and Sponsored by Revlon)

Avatar photo by Stephanie Huber May 7, 2019May 8, 2019

Zeitgeisty is perhaps the best word to describe the Brooklyn Museum’s popular exhibition, which takes for granted the idea that Kahlo’s artwork is merely an extension of her constructed persona.

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