Heard on The StreetJanuary 13, 2015

A tribute to Frida Kahlo at the Botanical Gardens in NY

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's garden and study will be recreated at the New York Botanical Gardens next Spring. The exhibition reflects the brilliant colors and textures of Kahlo's portraits and still lives. Native Mexican plants and flowers will be used for "Frida Kahlo, Garden and Life", which will remain open to the public between May 16th and November 1st, 2015. The show will feature some ten original paintings and drawings that highlight Kahlo's botanical images. As part of the tribute, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory will be transformed into the Blue House: Kahlo's study and garden in Mexico City. The house, which is now a museum, was decorated with traditional Mexican items, colonial-era art, native plants, and small religious offerings known as exvotos, a popular tradition that represents a tragedy or a grave illness or lesion. There will be in the Botanical Garden a pathway of volcanic rocks and flowers, and a version in scale of a pyramid created in the Blue House for the display of pre-Columbian art acquired by Diego Rivera.
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