Frida Kahlo

To mark Cinco de Mayo, an immersive art show is taking place Thursday night in San Francisco celebrating the work of artist Frida Kahlo. The exhibit will incorporate large-scale projections of her work accompanied by music.

California Live’s Ross Thomas steps into the artwork of Frida Kahlo. Best known for her self-portraits, connection to nature, and cultural roots, her art is a journey through her life of love and pain. Luis Aguilar, Operations Manager for the Immersive Friday Kahlo exhibit in San Francisco, joins Ross to discuss details about the innovative technology that brings Frida’s artwork...

Painted five years before her death, “Diego y yo” is considered to be Kahlo’s final self-portrait.

A Bay Area cultural touchstone reopened Tuesday, a key sign of an improving situation.

A Bay Area cultural touchstone reopened Tuesday, a key sign of an improving situation. Scott Budman reports.

Lenny Maughan makes “running art:” pictures drawn with his footsteps, tracked by GPS as he runs marathon-length workouts across the map of San Francisco. His latest, a 29-mile portrait of Frida Kahlo, has earned him an avalanche of attention from the farthest reaches of the internet.

In 2017, just as the #MeToo Movement was taking off, Salma Hayek said that during the shooting of “Frida” Harvey Weinstein sought to get rid of Frida Kahlo’s limp and unibrow, and increased the character’s sex appeal. Weinstein, who has been accused of abusing women, projected his view of them on the screen. “There are problems of diversity and sexual...

Community members will gather Friday morning to celebrate the unveiling of the Frida Kahlo Way street signs in San Francisco, according to the office of Supervisor Norman Yee.

Distant relatives of the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo said Friday they have won a temporary injunction that stops sales of a Frida Barbie doll. Kahlo’s great-niece Mara de Anda Romeo argues that Mattel doesn’t have the rights to use Kahlo’s image as part of its Inspiring Women series.

Season two of the Bravo scripted series “Imposters” premiers April 5 and picks up where season one left off, as Maddie and the Bumblers find themselves on different paths after pulling the ultimate con on the FBI.

Toy-maker Mattel was in a dispute Thursday with a distant relative of the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo over rights to a Frida Barbie doll released as part of the company’s Inspiring Women series. Kahlo’s great-niece Mara de Anda Romeo said Mattel doesn’t have the rights to use Kahlo’s image.

Barbie has a new dream job — actually, a lot of them. The legendary doll brand just announced a new “Inspiring Women” Barbie collection that honors three historic figures who each made a major mark on the world, “Today” reported. Featuring Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo and Katherine Johnson, the new collection comes just in time for International Women’s Day on...

Phelan Avenue, a four-block street that runs through one of the campuses of the City College of Francisco, may be named after Mexican artist and activist Frida Kahlo after a community effort acknowledges the dark racist past of the last name.

In one of the most vivid accounts yet of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged abuse and harassment, Salma Hayek says the disgraced movie mogul turned the making of her 2002 passion project, the Frida Kahlo biopic “Frida,” into a nightmare after the actress refused Weinstein’s relentless advances. “For years, he was my monster,” Hayek wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday by The...

An exhibit on modern Mexican masterpieces has drawn one of the largest and potentially most diverse crowds at the Dallas Museum of Art, NBC News reported. More than half of guests who visited the traveling exhibition, entitled “Mexico 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde,” since its opening in March were first-time museum visitors. Corporate sponsorships...

Kahlo’s husband, artist Diego Rivera, gave the work to her personal assistant in 1955, the year after she died.

After the organizers of the Rainbow Honor Walk unveiled 20 “heroines and heroes” of the LGBT communities in San Francisco’s Castro District on Tuesday, several eagle-eyed copy editor types spotted two glaring typos cemented in the sidewalk.