News
Faces of Frida, a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and 33 partner museums, brings together some 800 artifacts from ultra-high resolution images of her work to personal objects and rarely-seen photos.
Art
In 1984, feminist filmmaker Laura Mulvey made an essayistic movie about these two artists who lived and worked in post-revolutionary Mexico.
News
The Frida Kahlo Corporation is suing the artist's great niece, claiming she is falsely presenting herself as someone who has the power to grant licensing permits for Kahlo's name and image.
In Brief
A temporary injunction has been issued against marketing or selling Mattel's doll of the famous Surrealist artist until a dispute over rights to her image is resolved.
Art
Victorian-era American girls loved the porcelain-faced version of Bonheur, which by the 1860s was a hit.
News
While the Frida Kahlo Corporation sanctioned the doll, the artist's great-niece isn't happy with the appearance of the toy.
News
Snapchat added three filters to celebrate famous women for International Women's Day.
Art
An exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Arts explores the many strands of Mexican modern art, shedding light on artists and movements beyond the best-known muralists.
Interview
"That’s the home she grew up in with her family, and that’s the home she returned to at the end of her life. It was a wonderful oasis of all things Mexican: color, nature, food. There’s a vitality about the space."
Performance
Sylvia Plath once got blazed with Frida Kahlo. This is the setting of Musas, which invites us to be a fly on the wall and listen in on these women's conversations as they smoke, eat, play, and work.
Art
DETROIT — The Detroit Institute of Arts’s major exhibition Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit closes on Sunday. This show was in the works for a decade, long before the city’s bankruptcy and the grand bargain, which shifted the ownership of the art from the city to the museum.
Performance
LONDON — As the centerpiece of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDF) in London, artistic director Bradley Hemmings has created an outdoor theater production called "The Four Fridas," inspired by the life and work of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.