Frida Khalo; Beyond the Myth, into the purses
7/10/07July 06 marked Frida Khalo’s centennial birthday. It also saw the opening of a massive exhibition of recently discovered sketches and keepsakes at Khalo’s former-family-home-turned-museum - The Blue House, in Coyoacan. According to NYT writer Elisabeth Malking,
“She became a Chicana heroine and an unintended purveyor of Mexican kitsch. She is an emblem of confessional [...]