Tag: Kahlo

The metro train system in Mexico City is one of the busiest in the world. It is also one of the most affordable at MXP$5 per ride, subsidized by the government. Since I heard it was easy and efficient, I thought I would try it. I’m actually laughing as I think about this decision, and wh...

The face of twentieth-century Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has become iconic. In somber self-portrait after self-portrait, she presented an unflinchingly honest depiction of imperfect beauty: bushy eyebrows that meet to form a unibrow, an unmistakable moustache on her upper lip, and a body increasing...

Frida Kahlo is a major — indeed emblematic — figure in 20th-century art. And of art in general. Everyone knows and recognizes her, particularly through her many self-portraits, which are always very characteristic. With her unibrow, flowers in her hair, and strong themes explored and rep...