The Branding of Frida Kahlo

In a 1933 article from The Detroit News, reprinted on the wall of the exhibition, a photograph of Kahlo painting a self-​portrait appears under the headline: “wife of the master mural painter gleefully dabbles in works of art.” The marquee room of the exhibition, the one that will draw crowds, is the final gallery, filled with Kahlo’s clothes and jewels, along with a compact recovered from her makeup table and perfume bottles (which, legend has it, she liked to fill with tequila when they were empty). But I spent the longest time in the small antechamber before this room, which featured the many back braces, plaster corsets, and prostheses Kahlo wore throughout her life.

Source: newrepublic.com