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Frida Kahlo

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.

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.