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Upcoming Livestream


Talk | Frida’s America: Painting the Political

Thu, Jul 10 | 6:30–7:30 pm

Celia Stahr, PhD, is the author of Frida in America and professor at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Stahr will discuss Frida Kahlo’s pivotal three years living in the United States during the Depression era. It was a time when Kahlo found her artistic voice and created some of her most blatantly political paintings. With the US economy bottoming out, racial tensions boiling over, and the rise of fascism abroad, Kahlo acknowledged, “In 1933–34, I was very interested in political things.” In this talk, Dr. Stahr will explore some of the political issues that inspired to make paintings such as My Dress Hangs There.



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Frida Kahlo (detail), 1931, Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883–1976), gelatin silver print. Private Collection © 2025 Imogen Cunningham Trust, ImogenCunningham.com

Talk | A Ribbon Around a Bomb: Frida Kahlo’s Surrealist Encounter

Thu, Aug 14 | 6:30–7:30 pm

Past Livestreams


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Additional support is generously provided by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.


ABOVE One Night at Jimmy’s We Saw the Supremes on Color Television, ca.1965–67, Willie Anne Wright (American, born 1924), Liquitex on canvas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, General Endowment Fund. © Willie Anne Wright