Frida Kahlo's distinct image and iconic paintings are omnipresent art symbols recognizable by most people even 70 years after her death, creating a false sense that everything there is to say about ...

"I paint myself because that's who I know the best," the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo once wrote in her illustrated diary. So it's fitting that a new documentary about Kahlo's life, now streaming ...

Frida Kahlo — with her elegant braided updo, opulent jewelry and vibrant garment collection — poured her heart into each painting and drawing in her magnificent body of work. With an insatiable desire ...

Director Carla Gutierrez on intentionally crafting a documentary about the artist that engages with her writing and her art in revelatory ways. “We knew that it was a bold decision,” Gutierrez told ...

At the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, lies a portrait of a young woman positioned in front of lush jungle foliage. Her raven hair is piled high in an elaborately braided style adorned with ...

For their Oscar-contending documentary Frida, director Carla Gutiérrez, producer Katia Maguire and team conducted extraordinarily detailed research into artist Frida Kahlo, a quest that extended from ...

Oftentimes, documentaries stand too far away from their subjects so the degrees of separation that come with time aren’t always a negative for the subgenre, but there’s no denying the magic that comes ...

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There are no known recordings of Frida Kahlo’s voice. But the iconic painter, who died in 1954, tells her own story in director Carla Gutiérrez’s documentary “Frida,” which is guided by her words ...