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Frida review – intimate dive into artist’s letters is raw and thrilling

Voiceovers of Frida Kahlo’s writing give us unprecedented insight into her life as she dealt with chronic pain, divorce, infidelity, miscarriage and commercial success

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: campesinos unite in Tina Modotti’s Mexico

The contemporary of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo uses her art to highlight peasant farmers fighting for agrarian reform in this 1927 picture

The Guardian - UK

How 'La Catrina' became the iconic symbol of Day of the Dead

On April 13, 1944, thousands of people clashed with police on the steps of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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‘She’s hard to pin down’: the ‘avant-garde It girl’ who became a revolutionary photographer

Tina Modotti moved in the same circles as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo but, until now, little was known of the artist and activist whose work was galvanised by her politics

The Guardian - UK

Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution is insightful and beautiful; a reminder of how Anglo-American our conception of modern art is

Frida Kahlo devotees, this is your show. There are her paintings aplenty, photographs of her by Imogen Cunningham through to Edward Weston, and film imagery of Kahlo and Rivera as the happy couple.

The Conversation

Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution exhibition – a glimpse of Kahlo’s true genius

This beautiful show is packed with works by Kahlo, Rivera and their Mexican contemporaries – but it is missing the darker side of her life story

The Guardian - AU

Mexico City’s mural movement, now a century old, is marked with a major exhibition

Between 1922 and 1923, the walls of Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso became the canvases for the emerging movement led by Fermín Revueltas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, among others.

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‘I tend to avoid moral statements’: the Mexican artist looking at oil, wealth and history

At her New York exhibition, Minerva Cuevas looks back through Mexican history and the many companies who have chosen profit over the public good

The Guardian - US

TV Tonight: a detective moves to Dublin to investigate her own daughter’s death

Paula Malcomson leads brilliant six-parter Redemption. Plus, Comic Relief 2023. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Becoming Frida Kahlo review – this joyful celebration makes the artist fascinating in a whole new way

The seemingly impossible is managed by this gripping three-part series: shining a new light on the Mexican icon. It’s packed with love, art and politics – there’s almost too much to take in

The Guardian - UK

Becoming Frida Kahlo on BBC Two review: documentary reveals the woman behind the icon

The painter’s pain is there to see on her canvases, and this documentary sensitively reveals the astonishing life that she poured out in paint

Evening Standard

Becoming Frida Kahlo: new BBC documentary paints a compelling portrait of the Mexican artist

Nearly 70 years after her death the brilliant Mexican artist Frida Kahlo continues to fascinate for her unique artistic language that interprets her physical and emotional pain, her unconventional relationships with men and women, and her complex marriage to the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

The Conversation

The 10 most romantic love letters of all time

Letters sent by musicians, actors and poets have been shared through the centuries

The Independent UK

Frida Kahlo’s husband may have helped her die, reveals Diego Rivera’s grandson

The revered Mexican artist’s suffering was so great, she ‘probably’ asked her soulmate to assist in ending her life, documentary is told

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Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s art and life is subject of new immersive exhibit in NYC

NEW YORK — Nearly 70 years after her death, the world’s fascination with Frida Kahlo continues to flourish — generating popular culture conversations in ways the groundbreaking Mexican artist would likely not even understand.

The Independent UK

Reviving Mexico's groundbreaking muralism a century later

Artists in a small Mexican town are using their talents to revive muralism, a movement that put the country at the vanguard of art a century ago

Chicago Sun-Times

Frida Kahlo, a monarch butterfly and flowers brighten a Maywood alley in artist Yekseny Guerrero’s first public mural

The decor of the cafe that used to be at 612 Lake St. featured pictures of the Mexican artist and her artist-husband Diego Rivera. Guerrero took her cues from that.

The Conversation

Swimming in the president’s pool – palaces and power in times of crisis

Footage flashed across television and smartphone screens this week showing rowdy crowds of Sri Lankan protesters mobbing the official presidential palace in Colombo.

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Mexico's cart ban marks generic shift

In April, the government of Mexico City's central Cuauhtémoc alcaldía, or borough, mandated that all its rótulos -- the hand-painted signs decorating street vendors' kiosks -- be erased.

The Guardian - UK

Diego Rivera by Francisco de la Mora and José Luis Pescador review – rumbustious hymn to a radical artist

The eventful life of Frida Kahlo’s revolutionary husband makes for a rich, energetic graphic biography

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