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…
33 days ago
Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art ⊖
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Tate Modern, London
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…
40 days ago
‘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 …
57 days ago
Watch: AI versions of Churchill, Kahlo and Gandhi on Question Time ⊕
An unusual start to the programme, which this week debates concerns around artificial intelligence.
67 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
In a photograph…
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 …
8 months ago
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $55m, sets auction record for a female artist ⊖
The auction also shattered the previous record for a portrait by the Mexican artist.
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist ⊕
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The 1940 painting of Kahlo asleep in bed has surpassed the record set by the $44.4m sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 2014
A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frid…
The Frida Kahlo scandal: Fridamania could reach new heights today – but where are her ‘missing’ masterpieces? ⊕⊕
An auction in New York today is almost certain to make the celebrated artist a record-breaker. But, overshadowing what could be a $60m sale, are questions about works that have allegedly disappeared
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