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Becoming Frida Kahlo

A Modern Mexican Artist in New York

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

Explore Frida Kahlo’s life including her affair with Leon Trotsky, her trip to Paris on the eve of WWII with surrealist pioneer Andre Breton, and her return to Mexico where she divorces and then remarries husband Diego Rivera before her death.
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

Explore Frida Kahlo’s life including her affair with Leon Trotsky, her trip to Paris on the eve of WWII with surrealist pioneer Andre Breton, and her return to Mexico where she divorces and then remarries husband Diego Rivera before her death.
A Modern Mexican Artist in New York

A Modern Mexican Artist in New York

Frida Kahlo becomes the talk of New York when she presents some of the most shocking paintings at her first solo art exhibition in November 1938. Virtually unknown in the city other than being famed muralist Diego Rivera’s wife, she makes a name for herself with the quality of
Frida and Cristina

Frida and Cristina

Diego Rivera depicts Frida Kahlo and her sister Cristina in his mural “The Present and Future of Mexico,” representing class conflict in their homeland. Historians John Lear and Celia Stahr, and Cristina Kahlo, Frida’s great-niece, discuss the painting’s significance in Frida Kahlo’s life.