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When word comes of a big art exhibition traveling to the Chicago area, most people probably expect it to be shown at one of the big, widely recognized institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago or Chicago Cultural Center.
But when a major Frida Kahlo exhibition opens June 5, it will go on view more than 25 miles west of Chicago’s downtown in a somewhat smaller, suburban venue the College of DuPage’s recently renamed Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn.
‘Frida Kahlo: Timeless’
When: June 5-Sept. 6
Where: Cleve Carney Museum of Art, McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn
How COD s McAninch Arts Center landed and remade a major Frida Kahlo exhibition
Justin Witte, left, curator of the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, and Diana Martinez, director of the McAninch Arts Center, stand in one of the display areas of the upcoming Frida Kahlo exhibit on the College of DuPage campus in Glen Ellyn. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
Artist Frida Kahlo is depicted on a mural gracing the wall of Olive n Vinnie s on North Main Street in downtown Glen Ellyn. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
Updated 5/22/2021 5:01 PM
A blockbuster Frida Kahlo art exhibition opens next month in the last place you d expect to find it: a community college in Glen Ellyn.