Tate Modern’s Frida Kahlo Exhibition Has Already Sold a Record 41,000 Advance Tickets
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Tate Modern exhibition dives into ‘extreme commodification’ of Frida Kahlo
Tate Modern’s Frida Kahlo Exhibition Has Already Sold a Record 41,000 Advance Tickets
Madonna collects her. Her work sets auction records for women artists. Netflix is developing a series about her. She’s the subject of an opera. Now, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has another claim to fame. “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month at London’s Tate Modern, has pre-sold 41,000 tickets, a record for the institution, reports the Guardian. That beats the 32,000 advance sales for the museum’s 2017 David Hockney exhibition. …
She herself built her mythology. To the point of being trapped by her own legend? In London, the exhibition "Frida: The making of an icon," illuminates the modern and radical work of the Mexican painter, looking at the artists she inspired.
Frida Kahlo's exhibition "Frida: The Making of an Icon" opens at Tate Modern in London on June 25. It has now become the museum's most successful pre-sale exhibition in its history, The Guardian reports.
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