The Mexican artist’s legacy is far greater than the kitsch. She is a much-loved symbol of rebellion and resilience
Even before it opened this week, Tate Modern’s Frida: The Making of an Icon was a sma…
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‘Rude, heavy-drinking and a committed communist’: the Frida Kahlo you can’t buy in the gift shop ⊕⊕
The artist’s likeness has become a symbol of resistance and heroism – but the truth is more complicated. As a major exhibition opens in London, has brand Frida obscured the real Kahlo?
I spend a lot o…
34 days ago
Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art ⊖
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Frida Kahlo took self-portraiture to new levels of interior revelation and her work takes you deep into her mystery. So why is this show padded out with responses by lesser artists…
37 days ago
The rise of OnlyFans managers, the footsteps of Frida Kahlo and what you should actually store in the fridge ⊕
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‘I call this dish Frida Kahlo Against the World. It’s hot and horny!’ My thrilling week of Fridamania in Mexico City ⊕⊕
The bar she drank at, the bed she recuperated in, the canals she daytripped to, the studio she stormed out of, the easel she painted her final masterpiece at … ahead of a major Tate show, our writer …
45 days ago
Mexico hoping football emerges from the chaos surrounding World Cup ⊕
It may just be time to forget the sullied buildup and enjoy the tournament although co-hosts are not optimistic
It has been difficult to go anywhere in Mexico City this week without seeing Hugo Sánche…
68 days ago
‘This is mine, I own it’: how Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo inspired me to make meaning out of pain ⊖
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Emin’s unsparing examination of her cancer and Kahlo’s intensely imagined response to traumatic injury moved our writer to take self-portraits while recovering from a serious operation
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3 months ago
Mexican art world protests over plan to send Frida Kahlo masterpieces to Spain ⊕⊕
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Cultural figures sign open letter asking government for clarity on how long landmark collection will remain abroad
One of the world’s most important collections of 20th-century Mexican art, including …
4 months ago
What links Joni Mitchell, Ian Dury and Frida Kahlo? The Saturday quiz ⊖
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From ancient China and Paris’s Latin Quarter to ‘Han shot first’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 The slogan “Han shot first” protested against the re-editing of which film?
2 The boundari…
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‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes ⊕⊕
From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois way back to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that’s why my novel Female, Nu…