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Frida Kahlo
I find that I go to the Art Institute much less than I’d like to, and I’m hoping that this series will encourage me, as well as you, the reader, to take advantage of our world-class museum and the exciting new temporary exhibitions that are shown there.
Arts & Culture
Make Way for Frida
The Cleve Carney Art Gallery, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is expanding in anticipation of a Frida Kahlo show in summer 2020.
Arts & Culture
Leave Frida Alone!
It’s been 60 years since Frida Kahlo died, and her fame has grown tremendously among arts connoisseurs and the greater public alike. Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo at the MCA is definitely surfing on that popularity wave. While it condemns the fact that “she has been turned into a stereotype of Latin American Art,” the MCA uses her name as a crowd-drawing and money-making pretext for an exhibition that has very little to do with her or her work.
