Brooklyn Museum Announces Major Frida Kahlo Exhibition for 2019

The Brooklyn Museum has just announced the subject of their next major exhibition: Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

In one of the biggest exhibitions of her work in the last decade, the Brooklyn Museum will host the show, titled Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving, which has previously been shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

It will be the first U.S.show to feature hundreds of objects from the painter’s Mexico City home, Casa Azul, alongside art, photos, clothing and other ephemera. Many of the objects were rediscovered in 2004 after being locked away for half a century following the artist’s death in 1954.

“The objects shed new light on how Kahlo crafted her appearance and shaped her personal and public identity to reflect her cultural heritage and political beliefs, while also addressing and incorporating her physical disabilities,” writes the museum in their announcement of the show.

The Brooklyn Museum’s own Mesoamerican Art collection will be incorporated into the exhibition as well, in order to highlight the collecting interest shared by Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera.

The exhibition will run from February 8–May 12, 2019, with timed and untimed tickets available to viewers. Tickets go on sale December 3, but Brooklyn Museum members can access a pre-sale that starts November 26.

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Earlier this year, the Brooklyn Museum hosted another blockbuster exhibition focused on a single artist with David Bowie Is. Notably, the museum also held the first-ever exhibition of Brooklyn-born artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s $110 million Untitled.

While the Khalo exhibition may be a first for the Brooklyn Museum, late last year, artists in Park Slope honored the famed Mexican painter with an art show in conjunction with Mexican Independence Day.