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The Brooklyn Museum Announces Its Next Major Exhibition on the Life and Work of Frida Kahlo
The Brooklyn Museum has just announced its latest exhibition which is on the art and life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The exhibition, titled Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving, will showcase the various elements that “played a part in defining Kahlo’s self-presentation in her work and life.” Similar to the recent exhibition at the…
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Rare, Candid Photos of Frida Kahlo During the Last Years of Her Life
Last month a book of photographs taken of Frida Kahlo in the last years of her life was published by Harry N. Abrams. For two years, photographer Gisèle Freund was welcomed into the home of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera allowing her to intimately document their daily lives. The images provide a glimpse into the…
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Access the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled, All FREE Online
Some films achieve the rare feat of being both colorful escapist fantasy and artful means of reconnecting us with our imperiled humanity. Pixar’s wonderful, animated Coco is such a film, “an exploration of values,” writes Jia Tolentino at The New Yorker, “a story of a multigenerational matriarchy, rooted in the past—whereas real life, these days, feels…
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Rare Photos of Frida Kahlo Discovered as a Young Artist in the 1920s
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” Frida Kahlo de Rivera (1907-1954), born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, was a Mexican painter, who mostly painted self-portraits. She became one of Mexico's greatest painters. Kahlo contracted polio at the age of 6,…
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Is This The Best Way to Recognize the Artists of Famous Paintings?
If you haven’t studied art history, it can sometimes be a bit confronting walking around a museum or art gallery and trying to get your head around who painted what. So with this in mind, here’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek guide as to how YOU can easily work out which artist painted what. Though some…