The commodification of Frida Kahlo: are we losing the artist under the kitsch?
As a new exhibition of Kahlo’s photographs opens, Jenny Valentish looks at the merchandise bearing the artist’s image and wonders if we’ve missed the point
Posts Tagged 'Frida Kahlo'
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up review – forget the paintings, here’s her false leg
V&A, London
By focusing on Kahlo’s life and her suffering rather than her art, this memorabilia-stuffed exhibition stifles her blazing visionary brilliance
Totally Mexico: how fashion stole Frida Kahlo
A new V&A exhibition examines the artist’s enduring image. But is fashion’s co-opting of her aesthetic reductive or true to her maverick spirit?
Frida Kahlo: feminist, selfie queen, queer icon and style muse of 2017
It’s the artist’s attitude as much as her work that inspires today’s designers (not to mention Theresa May)
Selfie as art at the Saatchi: from Rembrandt to a grinning macaque
Exhibition explores the history of the selfie and our changing relationship with this most everyday of art forms
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera review – romance, heartbreak and a must-see exhibition
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Breaking a 10-year absence from Australian galleries, the paintings, photos and letters of the two Mexican lovers is illuminating and tragic