Mexican icon Frida Kahlo to be subject of new stage musical
July 21, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Painters — mostly male — have long been the subject of stage shows, like ones about Mark Rothko, Georges Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud and even a group of miners who painted in Newcastle, England.
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for record $35M at auction
November 17, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A Frida Kahlo self-portrait that shows the artist with the face of her husband, Diego Rivera, in the middle of her forehead, sold at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday for $34.9 million, an auction record for a work by a Latin American artist.
Frida Kahlo Foundation launches makeup line
July 17, 2019 GMTMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Frida Kahlo Foundation is partnering with U.S. cosmetics retailer Ultra Beauty to launch a line of makeup inspired by the Mexican artist...
Investigation begins into supposed voice of Frida Kahlo
June 14, 2019 GMTMEXICO CITY (AP) — Frida Kahlo's voice may have finally been unearthed, say researchers at Mexico's National Sound Library.
Library officials say it would be the first record of the Mexican artist's voice if confirmed.
Unseen photos of Frida Kahlo by her lover to be auctioned
April 3, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Frida Kahlo with her head wrapped in bandages. Diego Rivera posing with a gas mask. Miguel Covarrubias at the beach.
The photographs of the three Mexican painters and other works by Nickolas Muray, many of them never seen before, are going on sale this week in New York.
On the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera art trail in Mexico City
February 20, 2018 GMTMEXICO CITY (AP) — With her unibrow, braided updo, colorful clothing and mustache, the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become an idiosyncratic cult figure in the United States...
Hayek says rebuffing Weinstein led to nightmare on ‘Frida’
December 14, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — In one of the most vivid accounts yet of Harvey Weinstein's alleged abuse and harassment, Salma Hayek says the disgraced movie mogul turned the making of her 2002 passion project, the Frida Kahlo biopic "Frida," into a nightmare after the actress refused Weinstein's relentless advances...