Tate Modern’s Frida Kahlo Exhibition Has Already Sold a Record 41,000 Advance Tickets
ARTnews reported that Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month in London, has already sold a record 41,000 advance tickets, surpassing the museum’s previous high of 32,000 for its 2017 David Hockney show. Interim director Catherine Wood told the Guardian the museum was “pretty blown away” by the demand. Co-organized with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the exhibition includes more than 30 works by Frida Kahlo alongside photographs, personal effects, and works by artists influenced by her, and it examines her rise as a global icon and the commercialization dubbed “Fridamania.” Works referenced include Kahlo’s Self-Portrait (With Velvet Dress) (1926), Self-Portrait with Loose Hair (1938), The Frame (1938), and Diego Rivera’s circa-1935 portrait of Kahlo, with contextual material spanning her posthumous influence from the 1960s onward and noting Hayden Herrera’s 1983 biography translated into more than 25 languages.
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