Welcome to Frida Kahlo's family home in Mexico City
Since the end of September, Casa Roja, the house where Frida Kahlo's parents lived, has reopened its doors in Mexico City. It offers a glimpse into the Mexican painter's family life, reports The New York Times.
Frida Kahlo's distinctive features—her thick eyebrows, her piercing gaze—still appear on the Mexican 500-peso note [23 euros]. At Mexico City airport, travelers can purchase a cologne bearing her name. Elsewhere, the painter's image has been reproduced on a wide array of items : tote bags, socks, insulated mugs, among others.
Seventy-one years after her death, Frida Kahlo is undoubtedly still the most recognizable woman in Mexico. Only the Virgin of Guadalupe truly rivals her.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people flock to the Casa Azul (named for the cobalt blue of its walls), where she was born and died [1907-1954], and to the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, where she lived and worked alongside her husband, the painter Diego Rivera . The two institutions are located in two separate neighborhoods of the Mexican capital.
Since the end of September, Frida Kahlo admirers have been able to visit another pilgrimage site in Mexico City: the Museo Casa Kahlo, or Casa Roja , the house where the artist's parents lived from 1930 onward. Located just three blocks from the Casa Azul, the new museum focuses on the family history and the
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