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The a href= http://chrysler.org target= _blank Chrysler Museum of Art /a announced the appointment of Mark A. Castro as Director of Curatorial Aff

When Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson declared January 26, 2022, Octavio Medellín Day, he honored the artist whose fingerprints are all over North Texas.

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Frida Kahlo, Still Life with Parrot and Flag, 1951, oil on masonite, private collection, courtesy Galería Arvil © 2021 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York hide caption toggle caption © 2021 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York "Still lifes were something she touched on throughout her career," Dallas curator Mark A. Castro says. "But in those last few years she returned to them in greater numbe...

What more is there to say about Frida Kahlo? She died in 1954 at age 47. By now she's a cottage industry. Her face (that unibrow, the red lips, the scores of self portraits) reproduced on mugs, matchbooks, pandemic masks, of course tote bags. Fans can recite her story: The terrible accident when she was 18 — a bus/tram collision in Mexico City smashing her body, and creating a lifetime of surgeries and pain. The passionate, tumultuous years with artist Diego Rivera. "I suffered two serious accidents in my life," Kahlo said. "One in which a bus threw me to the ground ... the other ... Diego....