She is working on a biography of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
More recently she co-curated the Frida Kahlo centennial exhibition that opened at the Walker Art Center in 2007 and traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Herrera has curated a number of exhibitions, including a Frida Kahlo show that opened at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in 1978 and traveled for a year in the United States. She has also written artists’ biographies, including “Mary Frank” (1990), “Matisse: A Portrait” (1993) and “Joan Snyder” (2005). Her second full-length biography, “Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work” was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. This program will be webcast live at Herrera is a New York-based art historian and critic whose first book, “Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo,” was published in 1983 and in 2002 became the basis for a major motion picture.
Seating is free, but limited.īACKGROUND: Herrera’s talk interweaves Frida Kahlo’s art and life, focusing on her childhood, the accident that turned her to painting, her tumultuous marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera, Rivera’s influence and other sources of inspiration for Kahlo’s art, Kahlo’s childlessness, her frequent surgeries and her passionate love for her native Mexico. WHERE: Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe streets. Frida is also the story of her tempestuous marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera, her love affairs with numerous, diverse men such as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, her involvement with the Communist Party, her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture, and of the inspiration behind her unforgettable art.EVENT: Hayden Herrera, art historian and biographer of Frida Kahlo, presents “Frida Kahlo: Her Art and Life” for the 2009 Amon Carter Lecture. But her remarkable paintings were only one element of a rich and dramatic life. Kahlo's unique talent was to make her one of the century's most enduring artists. To salvage what she could from her unhappy situation, Kahlo had to learn to keep still - so she began to paint. 'Hayden Herrera has succeeded admirably in cutting through the myths to offer a plausible likeness of this wretched, glorious woman '― IndependentĪ reissue of the beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahloįrida is a c omprehensive, detailed, sympathetic and well written account of the incredible life of an independent and colourful woman.īorn near Mexico City, Frida grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left her crippled and unable to bear children.
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