HOUSTON — Frida Kahlo is already a canonical Mexican artist, but Frida: Making of an Icon at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston positions her as an emblem of the metaphorical and geographical ...

“Frida with Her Pet Eagle, Coyoacán,” by Nickolas Muray, 1939. When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, she was not the icon of Mexican art that she is today. A new exhibit premiering at the Museum of Fine Arts ...

We recognize her from her eyebrows alone. Frida Kahlo is one of a handful of artists who have truly gained icon status, remembered not only for her searing body of work but also for her enduring image ...

A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, explores how Kahlo’s extraordinary life and self-fashioned persona inspired generations of artists—and helped transform her into a cultural icon.

Last week a Frida Kahlo self-portrait, titled “Diego y yo,”from 1949, came up at auction. In a pre-sale promotional video, Brooke Lampley of Sotheby’s situated Kahlo in the ranks of art history’s ...

The larger-than-life installation from Lighthouse ArtSpace L.A. uses music and digital tools to animate the Mexican artist's iconic paintings. By Evan Nicole Brown Culture Writer Lighthouse ArtSpace ...

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, inviting you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art. This painting — “The Two Fridas” — by Frida Kahlo was made in 1939, and keep in mind ...

In a former residence in Mexico City, passed down through the Kahlo family, it presents an intimate side of the Mexican painter’s life. At Museo Casa Kahlo in Mexico City, also known as the red house, ...

"I paint myself because that's who I know the best," the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo once wrote in her illustrated diary. So it's fitting that a new documentary about Kahlo's life, now streaming ...

Before Frida Kahlo became an icon, she was just another artist from Mexico, and in the early 1930s was living and working in the United States with her husband Diego Rivera. Rivera, also an artist, ...

The exhibition, “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism” launched last weekend at the Portland Art Museum. While Kahlo is a beloved icon for many, there has recently been growing criticism of ...