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Immersive Art Show in San Francisco Marks Cinco De Mayo
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.
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Frida Kahlo's Artwork Comes to Life in San Francisco
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...
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Frida Kahlo's Self-Portrait ‘Diego y Yo' Breaks Records, Sells for $34.9 Million
Painted five years before her death, “Diego y yo” is considered to be Kahlo’s final self-portrait.
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San Francisco's de Young Museum Reopens With Frida Kahlo Exhibit
A Bay Area cultural touchstone reopened Tuesday, a key sign of an improving situation.
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San Francisco's de Young Museum Reopens With Frida Kahlo Exhibit
A Bay Area cultural touchstone reopened Tuesday, a key sign of an improving situation. Scott Budman reports.
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Painting With Footsteps: Meet the San Francisco Runner Whose Workouts Draw GPS Masterpieces
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.
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With No Woman Directors Nominated for the Oscars, #MeToo Has a Long Road Ahead
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...
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San Francisco to Celebrate New ‘Friday Kahlo Way' Street Sign
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.
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Mexican Relatives Win Injunction Against Frida Kahlo Barbie
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.
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The ‘Imposters' Return for Second Season
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.
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Mattel in Dispute With Frida Kahlo Descendant Over Doll
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.
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New Barbie Collection Honors Historic Female Figures
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...
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San Francisco Street Name Saga: From Racist Connotations to Frida Kahlo
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.
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'My Monster': Salma Hayek Says Rebuffing Weinstein Led to Nightmare on ‘Frida'
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...
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Mexican Art Exhibit Drives Record Museum Engagement With Dallas Latinos
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...
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Rediscovered Frida Kahlo Painting Going to Auction in NY
Kahlo’s husband, artist Diego Rivera, gave the work to her personal assistant in 1955, the year after she died.
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Typos Spotted in San Francisco Rainbow Honor Walk Tribute to LGBT Heroes
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.