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Frida Kahlo

Living with Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

October 3, 2021 - Tracy Bonfitto

Nickolas Muray seated in front of Frida Kahlo's self portrait

Imagine living every day alongside an important work of art. What if a painting today known and loved all over the world once served as the backdrop for your daily life, from family celebrations and milestone events to Sunday breakfasts and casual get-togethers with friends?

[Read more…] about Living with Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, Art, Frida, Frida Kahlo

Looking at Frida Kahlo

July 6, 2020 - Tracy Bonfitto

In London, the Victoria & Albert Museum extended the run of its 2018 exhibition Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, remaining open for 48 hours straight in order to accommodate demand. In Mexico City, lines regularly snake around the block for entry into Casa Azul, the birthplace of Frida Kahlo and the house in which she lived with husband Diego Rivera until her death. Museums all over the world have hosted displays of Kahlo’s paintings and personal possessions in recent years, and Kahlo’s likeness appears on everything from phone cases to protective face masks, from clothing to home furnishings, from tequila bottles to dolls.

Twenty years after her death, increased international interest in Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) began to percolate in the late 1970s, when her work was met with renewed interest by political activists and feminist scholars. Today it is easy to see that “Fridamania” is in full swing. [Read more…] about Looking at Frida Kahlo

Filed Under: Art, Featured1 Tagged With: Art, art collection, Frida Kahlo

Summer Film Series kicks off with Film and Not Film

May 18, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

The Ransom Center presents its Summer Film Series, beginning Thursday, June 16, with a showing of FILM (1965) followed by NOTFILM (2015). [Read more…] about Summer Film Series kicks off with Film and Not Film

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Alan Schneider, Buster Keaton, Film, Frida, Frida Kahlo, Julie Taymor, NOTFILM, Salma Hayek, Samuel Beckett, Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, short films, Vaudeville and Vitaphone, Warner Brothers

Meet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast

December 15, 2015 - Isabel Dunn

Carol Headrick gives a tour of the exhibition "Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West." Photo by Pete Smith.

Harry Ransom Center docents are volunteer guides who lead daily tours of the Center’s exhibitions. In the months leading up to exhibition openings, docents work closely with exhibition curators to gain a more complete understanding of exhibition items and content. The docent training process involves readings, discussion, and intense familiarization with the exhibition.

[Read more…] about Meet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Meet the Staff Tagged With: 1914-1918, Art, docents, Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West, Frida Kahlo, landscapes, pastels, Texas, The World at War

Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” to be displayed

November 23, 2015 - Jennifer Tisdale

Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940. © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Ransom Center celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s “Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940). [Read more…] about Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” to be displayed

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Art, Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” is star of New York Botanical Garden exhibition

July 21, 2015 - Rebecca Johnson

Frida Kahlo exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden. Photo by Margie Rine.

Frida Kahlo’s Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird and Still Life with Parrot and Fruit, from the Harry Ransom Center’s Nickolas Muray collection of Mexican art, are currently on view at the New York Botanical Garden’s exhibition Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life. Running through November 1, the exhibition [Read more…] about Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” is star of New York Botanical Garden exhibition

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Frida Kahlo

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