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New York Times
22-05-2025
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- New York Times
Mexico City to Welcome a New Frida Kahlo Museum
A new museum dedicated to the artist Frida Kahlo's life and work, Museo Casa Kahlo, will open this fall in Coyoacán, Mexico City, members of the Kahlo family announced on Thursday. The museum, designed in part by Rockwell Group, will be located at Casa Roja, a private residence purchased by Frida Kahlo's parents and handed down to Frida and her sisters. It was ultimately given to the museum by Mara Romeo Kahlo, the artist's grandniece, her closest living relative and heir. 'Everyone knows Frida the artist,' Romeo said in an interview on Wednesday, but not 'the human being, my aunt. The family was very important for Frida because it was her support.' Casa Roja became the home of Frida's sister Christina, who then handed it down to her daughter Isolde, who then handed it down to her daughter Mara Romeo. It will be adjacent to the famed Casa Azul, the family home built by Kahlo's father, Guillermo, that is part of Museo Frida Kahlo and managed by a trust — Fideicomiso de los Museos Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo — administered by the central bank of Mexico. While Casa Azul tells the story of her life with her husband, Diego Rivera, the new museum will focus on Kahlo's origin story, starting with her father and his photography career, which helped set Kahlo on her artistic path. Adán García Fajardo, who is currently the academic director at the Museum of Memory and Tolerance in Mexico City, will be director of the museum. The creation of Museo Casa Kahlo is made possible in part by a newly formed nonprofit organization based in New York City, Fundación Kahlo, that was established by the Kahlo family to preserve the artist's legacy and promote Mexican, Indigenous, and Latin American art and culture. The Foundation will oversee the development, opening, and stewardship of the museum, as well as programs on Kahlo's artistic legacy and values. Chaired by Rick Miramontez, the New York public relations veteran known for representing Broadway shows, the foundation plans on establishing the Kahlo Art Prize, a biennial award recognizing visionary contemporary artists, and Las Ayudas, a grant program. 'I'm Mexican American, so there is that big connection,' Miramontez said in a phone interview. 'When I met the family and heard their goals, I thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be of service.'
Vogue
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Museo Casa Kahlo, a New Frida Kahlo Museum, Will Open in Mexico City This Fall
In 1904, the Hungarian-German immigrant Guillermo Kahlo built a house in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City. There, he would raise his children and establish himself as a sought-after photographer, documenting the region's Colonial architecture. One of his daughters, Frida, would even help her father in the dark room, developing negatives, retouching photos, and arguably beginning her artistic education. As an adult, Frida Kahlo would occupy the same house with her husband, Diego Rivera, transforming it into a gathering place for great personalities of the era: Leon Trotsky, Henry Moore, André Breton. The house has had a vibrant afterlife as well. In 1958, four years after Kahlo's death, it was converted into the now-beloved Museo Frida Kahlo (known to many as Casa Azul), which vies with the National Museum of Anthropology for the rank of most-visited museum in Mexico City. Salma Hayek, paying tribute to one of Kahlo's most iconic paintings, 1939's The Two Fridas, for Vogue. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, December 2001 Last night, a new chapter in Kahlo's story was announced at the Park Avenue residence of Christine and Stephen Schwarzman: The public opening of a Museo Casa Kahlo, adjacent to the storied Casa Azul, will take place on September 27. Already dubbed 'Casa Roja,' the building where the new museum will be housed was originally owned by Frida Kahlo's parents; she later purchased it from them as a home for her sister Christina and Christina's family. 'Cristina was by her side through so much,' says Frida Hentschel Romeo, Kahlo's great-grand-niece, 'traveling with her to New York for her first major exhibition, supporting her through surgeries and recovery.' Frida Hentschel, Mara Romeo Kahlo, and Mara De Anda Romeo Photo: Julieta Cervantes Kahlo's closest living descendants—Mara Romeo Kahlo (Christina's granddaughter and Kahlo's grand-niece), her daughter Mara Deanda Kahlo (Kahlo's great-grand-niece), and Hentschel Romeo—came to New York to publicize the new institution. 'For the first time, the voice of the family will be at the heart of how Frida's story is told,' says Hentschel Romeo. 'This museum isn't just about her work—it's about her world. It's about how the people closest to her shaped who she became. And it's also about the living family—those of us who carry her legacy forward.' The museum will exhibit personal items that have never been shown before, including letters, childhood photographs, a piece of embroidery Kahlo made at the age of five, dolls, jewelry, clothing, and the very first oil painting she ever created. This was the painting, says Hentschel Romeo, that Kahlo showed to Diego Rivera to determine if she had the skill to become a painter. 'It is incredibly moving to see up close,' she adds. The museum will also showcase a newly discovered mural—believed to be the only Frida Kahlo mural in existence.
