I was in Philadelphia this weekend and went to the Art Museum only to find out that I am missing the Frida Kahlo exhibit by a few days! I will have to come back. Make sure to check it out if you are in the Philly vicinity from February 20 – May 18, 2008.
According to the Philadelphia Art Museum website, Frida Kahlo is the first major Kahlo exhibition in the US in almost 15 years and it is organized in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth. It presents “over 40 of the artist’s most important self-portraits, still lifes, and portraits from the beginning of her career in 1926 until her death in 1954.” It also features a selection of nearly 100 photographs of Kahlo and her husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, by preeminent international photographers of the period, such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Gisele Freund, Tina Modotti, and Nickolas Muray. Personal snapshots of the artist with family and friends, including such cultural and political luminaries as André Breton and Leon Trotsky, are also on view. Enjoy!