Frida Kahlo: A Question Of Ethnicity – Edward Lucie-Smith
A recent Opinion piece on the website Hyperallegenic fiercely condemned Frida Kahlo, long one of the patron saints of contemporary feminist art.
1 June 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
To celebrate getting 5000 subscribers and over 150.000 views James Payne’s next film will be whichever work of art gets the most votes.
18 June 2018
Frida Kahlo Artist or Cult Figure? Making Her Self Up at V&A
Frida Kahlo’s life is so interwoven with her art that there is little separation. Her biography is well-known, and so is her image. The brightly dressed artist in traditional Mexican clothes with her prominent monobrow. The pain and suffering she endured first through childhood polio and subsequently through a tram crash are well documented.
24 April 2018
9 March 2018
Frida Kahlo Estate Raises A Monobrow To Artist Barbie Doll
Relatives of the estate of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are considering suing the Frida Kahlo Corporation over claims it holds the rights to her image.
Frida Kahlo’s Wardrobe And Belongings Documented At Michael Hoppen Gallery
Michael Hoppen Gallery presents Frida by Ishiuchi Miyako (2013), a photographic record of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe and belongings. Following Kahlo’s death in 1954 her husband Diego Riviera began placing her personal effects into the bathroom of their Mexico City house, “The Blue House”, which later became the Museo Frida Kahlo. Riviera gave instructions […]
Madonna Refuses To Loan Frida Kahlo’s My Birth To Detroit Exhibition
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were an explosive couple. He carried a pistol. She carried a flask. He romanticised Detroit. She rejected it. But what they shared was a belief in communism, a thirst for tequila and a passion for each other. A new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts explores how they left their mark on the city […]
Frida Kahlo’s Beloved Garden To Be Re-created in New NYBG Exhibition
The New York Botanical Garden’s 2015 programme will re-create Frida Kahlo’s famous garden, as a show-stopping feature. Focusing on the iconic artist’s engagement with nature in her native country of Mexico. Opening on May 16, 2015, and remaining on view through November 1, 2015, the exhibition will be the first solo presentation of Kahlo’s work […]