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Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
With the opening of Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, the V&A’s hugely anticipated, hot ticket of a show, you’ll have a unique chance to savour more than 200 of Frida’s paintings, photographs, clothing and personal possessions. Their fascinating back story is clearly part of the allure: most of these items have never been seen outside the Casa Azul (Blue House), the Mexico City home in which Frida was born, lived and died. They had been protectively stashed and sealed inside a bathroom by her husband, muralist and revolutionary Diego Rivera, and only revealed 50 years after her premature death. Continue reading
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