Curator Conversations
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954), "Self-Portrait with Monkeys," 1943
Throughout the year during free, public presentations, Norton curators provide insight and context to exhibitions they have organized and art and artists they have studied and admire.
Curator Conversation / Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: From the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Friday, November 5 / 6PM-7PM
Ellen Roberts, Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Curator of American Art, discusses the new exhibition Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. The show features the largest group of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera ever to be on view at the Norton and presents their art alongside other leading figures of the artistic renaissance which occurred after the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920.The exhibition includes over 150 paintings, works on paper, and photographs, as well as period clothing.
Members free / Non-members pay Museum admission
Support for Curator Conversations was provided by the Gayle and Paul Gross Education Endowment Fund.