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Weekly Update – Frida Kahlo and Lee Miller at the PMA

This week’s Weekly has my review of the Frida Kahlo show with mention of Lee Miller, also at the PMA, and a note about additional programming in the corridor on the way to the Miller show. For more on the shows see Libby’s post and Andrea’s post.Frida Kahlo’s works reflect her revolutionary spirit. Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column/La columna rota, 1944, (Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico City) © 2007 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av. Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc, 06059, México D.F. Since feminists rediscovered her in the ’60s, Frida ... More » »

Leonora Carrington in Dallas and Joshua Mosley in Ft. Worth

Leonora Carrington in her studio in 1956 While in Dallas for the College Art Association annual meeting I managed to slip away to see some art. At the Dallas Museum of Art was a small exhibition, Leonora Carrington; What She Might Be, containing twenty-five works by an artist some ten years younger than Lee Miller and Frida Kahlo, both of whom she knew ( both currently have exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), see post and post). The English-born Carrington, who is celebrating her ninetieth birthday, is another woman who used her beauty as entree into the artworld. ... More » »

Women’s Work

Lee Miller Self-Portrait in Headband, New York (1932), Lee Miller Archives © Lee Miller Archives, England 2008. All rights reserved. The last time Miller posed as a fashion model for Vogue she was the photographer as well. The credit ran photographer: Lee Miller, model: MISS LEE MILLER (COIFFURE BY DIMITRI) There’s a confluence of exhibitions in or coming to Philadelphia that raise overlapping questions about women’s agency, their representation and self-presentation. They’ve also got me thinking about the extent to which one should consider biography in assessing artwork, something I’m not inclined to do. The Art of Lee Miller opened ... More » »