Frida Kahlo

Mexican Artists We Love, In Honor Of Cinco de Mayo

Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Video, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Cinco De Mayo, Diego Rivera Moma, Frida-Kahlo-Photos, Diego Rivera Mural, Monica Lozano, Mexican Art, Mexican Artists, Arts News

As you celebrate this Cinco de Mayo, we'd like to go back and put a spotlight on some great posts about Mexican artists we love. Going through the arc...

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Bound in Wonderland

Kim Alexandriuk | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Lacma, Frida Kahlo, Women, Museum, Gertrude Abercrombie, Exhibit, Rosa Rolanda, Dorothea Tanning, Art, Surrealism, Los Angeles, In Wonderland, Leonora Carrington, Los Angeles News

This week marks the end of the In Wonderland exhibit at LACMA, a three-month-long journey into the subconscious of female surrealist artists.

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Medical Research Explains Frida Kahlo's Infertility And Imagery

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Dr. Fernando Antelo, Video, Miscarriage, Art Meets Science, Infertility, Frida Kahlo Disease, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo Infertility, Female Artists, Ucla Medicine, Asherman's Syndrome, Arts News

Frida Kahlo's works conveyed complex physical and psychological turmoil, often with astounding anatomical accuracy. Infertility remained a motif throu...

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10 Alter-Egos Of Famous Artists

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Lucy Schwob, Surrealism, Andy Kaufman, Alter-Egos, Frida Kahlo, Max Ernst, Claude-Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Arts News

Attention and behold: Marcel Duchamp... as a lady! Or, not exactly. This is more than just a giddy Surrealist in a pretty hat and a little rouge. This...

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A Look Into Frida Kahlo's Personal Life (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Frida Kahlo Photos, Frida Kahlo Photography, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Hispanic Heritage, Slidepollajax, Frida Kahlo Art, Frida Kahlo Exhibit, Latino Voices News

Frida Kahlo is best known for her painted self-portraits, but an exhibit titled "Frida Kahlo: Her Photos", which showcases photographs from the artist...

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In Memory of Frida Kahlo: Her Photos

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Diego Rivera, Photography Exhibitions, Frida Kahlo, Artisphere, Frida Kahlo Exhibit, Arts News

These photographs also expose her connections with friends and the people she admired such as Russian Marxist Leon Trotsky, American artists Georgia O'Keefe and photographers Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Tina Modotti among others.

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Celebrating Visionary Women of the World

Angella Nazarian | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Inspirational, Zaha Hadid, Anais Nin, Leadership, Marina Silva, Wangari Maathai, Estee Lauder, International Women's Day, Simone De Beauvoir, Amma, Master Cheng Yen, Gertrude Berg, Self-Esteem, Rigoberta Menchu, Angella Nazarian, Somaly Mam, Mentors, Conchita Cintron, Jacqueline Novogratz, Frida Kahlo, Women, Helen Suzman, Personal Growth, Pioneers of the Possible, Golda Meir, Celebrating Visionary Women, Slidepollajax, Ella Fitzgerald, Nawal El Moutawakel, Visionary, Forugh Farrokhzad, Women's Day, Women News

My hope is that the stories of these visionary women present to us the flame of the passionate life, the knife of insight, and the courage to stand for what one sees without looking away.

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Weekend To-Do: Reptile Day, A Klingon Casting Call and Frida Kahlo Photos

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: DC News, Video, Frida Kahlo, Reptiles, Dc Around Town, Artisphere, Klingon, National Aquarium, Weekend to-Do, Star Trek, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Ready for a wacky weekend? We can't make up these events: Dupont Circle plays host to an open call for Klingon casting and an artist hol...

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Plucking Hell

Claire Fordham | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Frida Kahlo, Laser Hair Removal, Eyebrows, Facial Hair, Beauty, Female Grooming, Beauty Advice, Eyebrow Shaping, Women News

The last time I moaned about my eyebrows being too thin and not long enough, a man friend told me to think myself lucky that's the only thing I have that's too thin and not long enough.

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PHOTOS: Frida Kahlo Exhibit Hits Artisphere

The Huffington Post | Megan Arellano | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Art Openings, Photography, Virginia, Video, Frida Kahlo, Art Exhibits, Photo Exhibits, Dc Around Town, Artisphere, Rosslyn, DC News

ARLINGTON, Va. -- For the first time in the United States, vistors can view more than 250 personal images from Frida Kahlo at Artisphere. From an asto...

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In Wonderland: A Journey Through The Fantastical World Of Women Surrealist Artists

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Women Surrealist Artists, Frida Kahlo, In Wonderland, Lacma, Female Artists, Lacma Exhibitions, Art Exhibitions, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Arts News

Co-organized by LACMA and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States is the first large-scale international survey of women surrealist artists in North America.

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Women Surrealists Rule 'In Wonderland'

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Women, Louise Bourgeoisie, Women Surrealism, Freud, Dorothea Tanning, Louise Bourgeois, Women Artists, Los Angeles Art, Lacma, Lee Miller, Remedios Varo, Dali, Frida Kahlo, In Wonderland, Diego Rivera, Leonora Carrington, Arts News

Not since Alice lost her way down the rabbit hole have we seen a wonderland so strange and delightful. In the first ever survey of women surrealists i...

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Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon

Edward Goldman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Ed Kienholz, Dorothea-Tanning, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Louise Bourgeois, Lacma, LA Louver Gallery, Lee Miller, Jose-Clemente-Orozco, Arts News

So, here she was: one female artist versus three super-macho colleagues. And you know who won the battle? Yes, you guessed it right: Frida left the boys in the dust.

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Did Men Invent Art to Become Women? Must Women Become Men to Make Great Art?

G. Roger Denson | Posted 03.21.2012

Imagine you are a man living amid the Paleolithic millennia. If you were seeking great rewards from beyond the mortal realm, would you mutilate yourself, or submit to an order of mutilation, to become as much a woman as would be possible to you?

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PHOTOS: 7 Famous Homes Turned Museums

BootsnAll | Posted 03.21.2012

These house museums give us a sense of what life was like in a different period and a glimpse of what went into making artists, writers and great thinkers who they were.

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Edvard Munch and Personal Art

David Galenson | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Tracey Emin, Frida Kahlo, Rembrandt, Louise Bourgeois, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Arts News

In a 1999 essay, Ernst van de Wetering, professor of art history at the U. of Amsterdam and chairman of the Rembrandt Research Project, noted that Rembrandt had painted himself at least 40 times, had etched himself 31 times, and had drawn a handful of self-portraits.

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Happy Birthday, Diego Rivera!!!!!

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Kahlo, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Mural, Mexican Mural, Rivera Birthday, December 8, Rivera, Mexican Art, Arts News

Today is the birthday of legendary muralist Diego Rivera. And it's a big one; he would be 125 years old today! Rivera was a key founder of the Mex...

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Separated At Birth?

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Video, Magazine Covers, Kim Kardashian, Frida Kahlo, Haute Muse Magazine, Style News

Newly single Kim Kardashian poses against a striking red backdrop for the December cover of Haute Muse magazine. In the mag, Kim waxes enthusiastic...

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From Victim to Victor: Women Turn the Representation of Rape Inside Out.

G. Roger Denson | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Ana Mendieta, Sue Williams, Rape in Art, Frida Kahlo, Kiki Smith, Judy Chicago, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Janine Antoni, Nan Goldin, Sexual Dependency, Homosocial Divide, Domestic Battery, Eve Sussman, Artemisia Gentileschi, Käthe Kollwitz, Arts News

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'Day Of The Dead' Crosses Borders

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Day of the Dead, Video, Frida Kahlo, Dia De Los Muertos 2011, Heritage, Altars, Hispanic Heritage, Tradition, Mexico, Mexican, Dia De Los Muertos, Death, Latino Voices News

Once a little-known and misunderstood tradition celebrated in Southern Mexico and Latin America, the Day of the Dead is crossing over into mainstream ...

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SLIDESHOW: Artists Gone Wild

Posted 11.20.2011

Artists are often eccentric; that's part of their appeal. But there's a fine line between eccentricity and hide-your-kids lunacy, and the artists in t...

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12 Amazing Painting Tattoos

www.oddee.com | David Moye | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Weird Photos, Video, Art, Mondigliani, Michaelangelo, Frida Kahlo, Picasso, Van Gogh, Klimt, Tattoos, Weird News News

Need proof tattoos are art? Look at these inked-up versions of masterpieces. It's a lot more convenient than carrying around a coffee table book....

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Fifteen of This Millennium's Top Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 10.29.2011

These aren't necessarily the best novels of the past 11 years, because there are acclaimed books I've yet to read.

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Frida Kahlo, My Chicana Heart Belongs To Another (Cue ABBA!)

Fox News Latino | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Cultura, Frida Kahlo Birthday, Frida Kahlo, Chicana, Latino Voices News

Without fail, around July 6th (Frida Kahlo's birthday) or near August 26th (Frida and Diego Rivera's wedding anniversary), I'm invited to at least one...

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The Best of Mexico City, Judged by Locals

Bob Schulman | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Teotihuacan, Frida Kahlo, Mexico City, Camino Real Polanco, Travel to Mexico, Coyoacan, Slidepollajax, Chaputepec, Travel News

These are the places the natives hang out.

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