Coming with Kahlo
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Jan. 31, 6 p.m. Lecture and Member Reception: Raissa Bretana, fashion historian for the Metropolitan Museum in New York, will give a talk on the way Kahlo used dress to express feminism and national pride. Admission is $15 for nonmembers, free to Arts Center members. Nonmembers may attend the reception by buying memberships at the door. Feb. 8, noon. Feed Your Mind Friday: A screening of “The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo,” in conjunction with AETN. Feb. 10, noon-3 p.m. Free Family Funday: Family portrait-making event. Feb. 16, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Paint Like Friday: Tour of the show and workshop with Robert Bean and Michael Schaeffer, $60-$75. Feb. 21, 6 p.m. Movement and Frida: Lecture by Ashley Bowman of the Artifact Dance Project, 5:30 p.m. reception, $10 nonmembers. March 14, 6 p.m. Lecture and Late Night: Julie Rodrigues Widholm, director of the DePaul Art Museum, will give the talk “Frida Kahlo: Unbound,” and the galleries will be open until 9 p.m. 5:30 p.m. reception, lecture $10 nonmembers. April 4, 6 p.m. Lecture and Late Night: Lis Pankl of the University of Utah will give the talk “Materiality, Geography and Identity Construction in the Work and Life of Frida Kahlo,” 6 p.m. April 4 (5:30 p.m. reception), free.
There are photographs of Kahlo and Rivera, both posed and informal, and the exhibition will include the Arts Center’s famous Rivera, the Cubist painting “Dos Mujeres.” “Photographing Frida” is the first exhibit having to do with the famous Mexican painter at the Arts Center. It’s not known whether any paintings by Kahlo have ever been exhibited in Arkansas, though reproductions of some of her work were shown at the Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale this winter. Arts Center curator Brian Lang, who did his master’s thesis on Kahlo, said that “Photographing Frida” may not include her own work, but it “allows one to experience a different aspect of the artist — artist as subject rather than artist as creator. In some respects, one might argue that as a subject she is also playing a role in the creation of the object.” ♦ 74 FEBRUARY 2019
ARKANSAS TIMES