Frida Kahlo

Kai Coggin: “Trying On Your Eyebrows (for Frida Kahlo)”

Trying On Your Eyebrows (for Frida Kahlo) I didn’t expect the effect it would have on me, darkening my meager brow-line, my skinny ridges, thickening each with coarse and insensitive strokes at first, forming a straight bridge across the fattened islands now thoroughfare of mascara-simulated blackened hair. Straight across was just not right, just not …

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Frida Kahlo: Portrait of the Artist as a Fashionista

San Francisco museums are starting to reopen after the virus pandemic shut down everything for seven months, and one of the first new exhibitions is Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving at the de Young Museum. Originally scheduled for a March debut, the show is as much a portrait of the artist as a conventional …

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