Overview
- Tate Modern schedules Frida: the Making of an Icon for 25 June–3 January 2027, featuring 30-plus works with photographs and personal artefacts, sponsored by Bank of America.
- The exhibition travels from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and curators say 36 Kahlo paintings have been secured, fewer than the more than 50 shown at Tate in 2005.
- Reported refusals to lend include Madonna, and borrowing the recently record-priced self-portrait El sueño (La cama) is described by curators as unlikely.
- A major section examines Kahlo’s Surrealist links, including The Frame (1938) from her 1939 Paris showing, with Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) receiving a UK debut.
- A large Fridamania display investigates her global branding through more than 200 mass-market objects, alongside portraits by artists influenced by Kahlo such as Tracey Emin and Yasumasa Morimura.