The current York Botanical Garden in the Bronx features artist Frida Kahlo's garden near Mexico City and displays some of her rarely shown works in a unique exhibition which examines her love of the natural world and how it influenced her art. WNYC's Richard Hake toured the garden and the works on display.
current York Botanical Garden - Frida Kahlo: Art,Garden, Life - "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" (1940)
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The current York Botanical Garden re-imagines Frida Kahlo's garden in her lifelong domestic Casa Azul which she shared with husband Diego Rivera.
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"What's wonderful about the garden Kahlo created is that it was really filled with a grand diversity of plants, and of course Mexican plants she featured prominently,but she also included plants found around the world that would thrive in Mexico's climate." said Todd Forrest, Arthur Ross Vice President for Horticulture and Living Collections at the current York Botanical Garden.
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"Frida: Art, or Garden,Life" imagines Kahlo's studio and how the plants, flowers and natural world influenced her art.
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current York Botanical Garden - Frida Kahlo: Art, or Garden,Life - "Two Nudes in a Forest" (1939)
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On display at the current York Botanical Garden, Kahlo's "Sun and Life" (1947)
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Visitors to the current York Botanical Garden experience the sounds, or scents and feel of a Mexico City garden in the glasshouse of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory in "Frida: Art,Garden, Life."
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Source: wnyc.org