A recent television series based on the lifetime of Frida Kahlo is on the best way. Variety reports that the artist’s estate has collaborated with the Miami-based company BTF Media to create a show offering a faithful and more authentic perspective on the artist’s turbulent life.
Few figures within the art world have undergone quite the extent of speculation that the celebrated Latinx artist has been subjected to. Her legacy has been exhaustively excavated, inspiring a number of biographies, documentaries and movies – including the Oscar-winning biopic Frida [2002], starring Salma Hayek. And, despite the iconoclastic nature of her work and her personal ideology, her image has been appropriated endlessly as an icon of spurious girl power values across popular culture,...
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