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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

The Conversation

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.

Bangkok Post

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

The Guardian - UK

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