How Frida Kahlo’s Iconic Mexican Art Was Influenced By Her German Father’s Photography

Raquel Reichard — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 21:13:45 +0000

Locked away in a bathroom at La Casa Azul, the Mexico City home-turned-museum of Frida Kahlo, stacks of thousands of portraits were discovered in 2004, more than 50 years after her death. The images are providing art scholars and aficionados a glimpse of the ways photography informed Kahlo’s own paintings as well as her lionized

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How Frida Kahlo Used Fashion to Make a Statement on Her Othered and Disabled Body

Michelle McVicker — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:16:18 +0000

In 2004, more than 300 of Frida Kahlo’s personal objects – including clothing, jewelry and orthopedic devices – were discovered inside of a bathroom in La Casa Azul in Coyoacan, Mexico. Fifteen years later, a selection of those belongings are on display for the first time in the United States at the Brooklyn Museum. Based

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