Don't go to Jared! Why buy something that thousands of other people will also have, not to mention that who knows where those diamonds came from? Give your beloved something that no one else will have anywhere, a piece of jewelry as unique and beautiful as her. Lots of other stuff available, too, go have a peek!
Organized in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, Frida Kahlo is the first major Kahlo exhibition in the United States in nearly fifteen years. It presents over 40 of the artist's most important self-portraits, still lifes, and portraits from the beginning of her career in 1926 until her death in 1954. Rendered in vivid colors and realistic detail, Kahlo's jewel-like paintings are filled with complex symbolism, often relating to specific incidents in her life. In her iconic self-portraits the artist continually reinvented herself. Paintings like The Two Kahlos (1939) demonstrate her penchant for self-examination, and works like Henry Ford Hospital (1932) and The Broken Column (1944) express her struggles with illness throughout her life.
The exhibition includes loans from over 30 private and institutional collections in the United States, Mexico, France, and Japan, several of which have never been on public view in the United States. Frida Kahlo also features a selection of nearly 100 photographs of Kahlo and her husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, by preeminent international photographers of the period, such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Gisele Freund, Tina Modotti, and Nickolas Muray. Personal snapshots of the artist with family and friends, including such cultural and political luminaries as André Breton and Leon Trotsky, are also on view. These photographs-several of which Kahlo inscribed with dedications, effaced with self-deprecating marks, or kissed, leaving a lipstick trace-pose fascinating questions about an artist who was both the consummate manufacturer of her own image and a captivating and willing photographic subject. On loan from the collection of designer and photographer Vicente Wolf, many of these photographs have never been published or exhibited. Major lenders to the exhibition also include the Museo Dolores Olmedo and the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art. Presenting an extraordinary combination of paintings and photographs, Frida Kahlo offers a unique perspective of one of the twentieth century's most important and revered artists.
In conjunction with this exhibition, Walker Art Center is publishing a richly illustrated catalogue featuring more than 100 color plates as well as critical essays by Hayden Herrera, Elizabeth Carpenter, and Latin American art curator and critic Victor Zamudio Taylor. A separate plate section is devoted to works from the Vicente Wolf Photography Collection. The catalogue also includes an extensive illustrated timeline of related sociopolitical world events, artistic and cultural developments, and significant personal experiences that took place during Kahlo's lifetime, as well as a selected bibliography, exhibition history, and index.
Just heard from a friend of mine, that volunteers for a local no-kill shelter. The shelter is going to take her in, and she stands a very good chance of being adopted quickly, as they actually have a demand for tortie kittens right now. All's well that ends well!
Saturday, January 12, 2008, 11:55 PM EST [General]
A friend around the corner called us, saying she had a kitten in her backyard. We went over, and found a very friendly, sweet, tortie kitten that looks to be about 3-4 months old. Our friend was worried because it was outside, she couldn't bring it in, and the temps are supposed to drop tonight, so we took her home and currently have her comfortably holed up in our basement. She is extremely friendly, a definate cuddlebug - she let me pick her up and cradle her with absolutely no complaints, and has a very loud purr. We didn't even need a crate to take her home - she sat in Wayne's lap and didn't make a peep, just purred and cuddled with him. She is a bit thin, and scarfed down quite a bit of food when we brought her in, but she has beautiful markings and will be a gorgeous cat when she's cleaned up and puts a bit of weight on. We cannot keep this cat, we already have too many. I put a call in to a friend that works for ACDC over here in Springfield, to see if they'll take her, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to put a post here, too. Please comment if you're interested!!
