When my father passed away, I started reading about Frida Kahlo and learned that her sister Cristina had an affair with Diego Rivera. How did you feel when you read about that? Well, it’s ...

Frida … A Self Portrait,” which opened Friday at Glencoe’s Writers Theatre, digs deep into her life. In the 75-minute, ...

Like many of Kahlo’s works, it has inspired more ... a leather strap holding a tiny box with a prayer inside. (Frida claimed her father was of Jewish descent; this has been refuted.) ...

Seventy years ago, on July 13, 1954, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo died, aged only 47 ... Albeit of mixed heritage — her mother was Mexican, her father German — Kahlo drew heavily from the folk art of ...