MFAH’s Combative Ramiréz in Wall St. Journal, calls Frida Kahlo Overappreciated Drama Queen
Blogger Judith Dobrzynski interviews the MFAH’s Mari Carmen Ramírez for today’s Wall St. Journal on the eve of the launch of the museum’s vast digital archive of Latin American art source materials. The first 2,500 documents from Argentina, Mexico and the American Midwest go online on Thursday, gathered and scanned under the museum’s International Center [...]
My Monkey + Parrot Beats Your Black Cat: Kahlo Portrait Coming to Houston as MFAH and Malba Celebrate 10th Birthdays with Latin American Art Swap
The Latin American Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Malba – FundaciónCostantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires , Argentina, were both established in 2001 and will now celebrate their 10-year anniversaries together, with several exhibitions and events planned to mark the occasion. This September, 14 loans from the MFAH [...]
Frida’s famous Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird make a pit-stop at its Austin home
UT’s Harry Ransom Center is celebrating the rare homecoming of one of its most famous and most-borrowed artworks, Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940). Since 1990 the painting has been on almost continuous loan featured in exhibitions in more than 25 museums around the world. The painting will be on display beginning [...]
Obey the Brow at TBH
The Brow: The Life and Times of Frida, a poetic multimedia performance, takes place at Talento Bilingue de Houston on April 28, 29, 30 and May 1. The 75-minute production, written and performed by Angeles Romero, artist-in-residence at TBH, dramatizes the already dramatic life of painter Frida Kahlo, a replica of whose sealed bathroom vault [...]