VISUAL ARTS
Frida Kahlo's Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
May 5, 2009-January 3, 2010
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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). Since 1990 the painting has been on almost continuous loan, featured in exhibitions at 28 museums in the U. S. and around the world, including Australia, Canada, France, and Spain. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) taught herself how to paint after she was severely injured in a bus accident at the age of 18. For Kahlo, painting became an act of cathartic ritual and her symbolic images portray a cycle of pain, death, and rebirth. Kahlo's affair in New York City with her friend, the photographer Nickolas Muray (American, b. Hungary, 1892-1965), and subsequent divorce from the artist Diego Rivera left her heartbroken and lonely, but she produced some of her most powerful and compelling self-portraits during this time period.
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300 West 21st Street
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May 5, 2009-January 3, 2010Times:
Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 5 pm, with extended hours on Thursdays to 7 pm.
Saturday - Sunday 12pm - 5 pm
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