London’s summer art calendar gains a serious anchor with Frida: The Making of An Icon at Tate Modern, opening 25 June. The Frida Kahlo exhibition brings together more than 30 works by Kahlo, alongside over 200 pieces by her contemporaries and artists shaped by her image, politics and mythology.
The sharper detail is the exhibition’s range: self-portraits, archival material, Tehuana dresses, personal possessions and a final section on “Fridamania”, where T-shirts, Barbies, perfume and tequila bottles show how an artist became a global visual language. For city breaks, this is the new cultural itinerary: one major show, one serious hotel, a weekend built around identity, collecting and the afterlife of an icon.
