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On the Other Side
Some of the fellows and the author at Frida Kahlo's Blue House in Mexico City. This is a guest post by Andres Martinez, who directs the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program at the New America Foundation. A group of...
Judy Chicago finds a new way to look at Frida Kahlo
Judy Chicago tells TOC about Frida Kahlo: Face to Face.
Mexican Beauty On Display In Shanghai [Snap Judgment]
[Shanghai, October 24: Miss Universe 2010 Ximena Navarrete of Mexico looks at the original self-portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo at the Mexico Pavilion in the Shanghai Expo site. Image via AP.] More »
Photo Gallery: Delia Brown Channels Frida Kahlo
Known for her lively paintings and works on paper of ladies of leisure, Delia Brown wields a deft brush to present herself and her female pals in stylish settings. Mixing illustration with appropriation art, the talented Ms. Brown places her subjects in familiar situations from art history, print media, and film. She’s painted self-portraits à [...]
Lila Downs Brings Sultry Ranchero to Symphony Center
Fans of Mexican-American singer-songwriter Lila Downs can't help but notice her visual transformation over the years from a Frida Kahlo clone (but with good depilatory sense) to sultry ranchera goddess. But Downs has never had an identity crisis musically. Show More Summary
Fortean London: Past Masters
At this year's Frieze Art Fair, artist Jeffrey Vallance plans to employ five mediums to channel Leonardo da Vinci, Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Duchamp and Vincent van Gogh in the fair’s auditorium. An art expert, and the audience,...Show More Summary
Since When Was Frida Kahlo an American?
Massachusetts' Weston.com reports as part of its celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History is displaying stamps that honor the achievements of Hispanic Americans and the contributions...Show More Summary
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to be reunited on Mexican bill
Critics interviewed by Milenio disagreed with the use of the artists' images for differing reasons. Historian Alejandro Rosas Robles said the Nobel Prize-winning writer Octavio Paz is a more worthy of appearing on the note because his...Show More Summary
The Eyes Have It: Frida Kahlo Retrospective in Germany
One of the most overlooked aspects of the life of Frida Kahlo is that the artist who exemplified Mexican national identity had a father born in Germany. Thanks to exhibitions in Germany and Austria, Frida returns to her German roots for the first time. Show More Summary
Frida Kahlo, a Mexican surrealist and artist extraordinaire
ChocolateCity.cc honors the 103th birth anniversary of an extraordinary Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo. Who is Frida Kahlo some of you might asked? Frida Kahlo, a surrealist painter was one of Mexico's best-known painters. Who is Frida Kahlo? Born July 6, 1907, Kahlo created striking, often shocking, images that reflected her turbulent life. Kahlo was one [...]
Bibliobitch: The Lacuna (Frida Redux)
Today's Bibliobitch is a follow up to Kjerstin's Sm{Art} tribute to Frida Kahlo from last Wednesday. While Barbara Kingsolver's newest book, The Lacuna, isn't exclusivly about Frida, Diego Rivera and their circle of compatriots and compadres,...Show More Summary
Frida Kahlo in Aluminum Cans
Phoenix-based artist Emily Costello made this portrait of Frida Kahlo out of (apparently) pieces of aluminum cans. It currently hangs in the Halperin & Lake Collection. She plans to create a similar portrait of a Mexican wrestler.
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Sm{art}: Happy Birthday Frida Kahlo
Andre Breton described Frida Kahlo's work as a "ribbon around a bomb." Yesterday was the Mexican surrealist painter's 103rd birthday.
I was lucky enough to see an exhibit of Kahlo's work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis a fewShow More Summary
Givenchy fashion inspired by anatomy
Fashion designer Riccardo Tisci's latest couture collection for Givenchy was inspired by Frida Kahlo's obsessions with religion, sensuality, and human anatomy. What, no menswear!? From Style.com: The zipper pulls were little bones, a belt was a spinal column re-created in porcelain. Show More Summary
Morning Brew - Wednesday, July 7: Jennifer Beals interviewed by Rachel Shelley, a bisexual cop in "The Bridge" comes to CBS
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Yesterday was Frida Kahlo's birthday. The legendary bisexual artist was celebrated in this month's German Vogue, as Claudia Schiffer donned the famous unibrow to pose as Frida for a photospread. Pretty convincing!
This month's issue of Diva magazine has a familiar face on the cover.
The cool thing about the interview with Ms. Show More Summary
Yesterday in Feminist History: Happy Birthday Frida
Yesterday was the birthday of renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. She would have been 103 years old. Frida was a passionate painter, well-known for her self-portraits depicting her physical struggles as a survivor of a severe bus accident as...
Happy Birthday Frida!
Google celebrated the 103rd birthday of Frida Kahlo on Tuesday by adding some changes to a self-portrait of Frida and using it for the day's search engine logo. Google artists enhanced a 1940 self-portrait by taking out the horns onShow More Summary
Google celebrates Frida Kahlo's 103rd birthday by doctoring its logo -- and her self-portrait
If an image of a painting that pops up on a computer screen can be considered a viewing, then Frida Kahlo may be setting a record today for the most glimpses of an artist's self-portrait -- thanks to Google, which...
Frida Kahlo, a Mexican surrealist and artist extraordinaire
Frida Kahlo employed the symbolism that characterized much of her work in this self-portrait, “Autorretarto con Collre de Espinas y Colibri, 1940.” Wearing a necklace of thorns, she represents a Christian martyr, and the thorns piercing her skin symbolize the emotional pain of her divorce from artist Diego Rivera. The dead hummingbird is a love [...]Show More Summary
Google Says the World Was Made, Made Pretty By Men
Like Frau Sally Benz, I was excited to see Frida Kahlo in all her beautiful, feminist glory on the Google homepage today – I love her! Then I had to ask the question I always ask: “How many women versus men has Google honored this way?” As often happens, the answer made me want to lose [...]