From the exhibition "Frida: The Making of an Icon"

HOUSTON — "Frida Kahlo is already a canonical Mexican artist, but Frida: Making of an Icon at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston positions her as an emblem of the metaphorical and geographical borderlands. With an emphasis on the reception of Kahlo’s work across times and cultures in the past century, the exhibition blasts apart any crystallized conception of the artist until no easily digestible singular figure emerges. That is, indeed, the point."

Frida: The Making of an Icon continues at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, Texas) through May 17. The exhibition was curated by Mari Carmen Ramírez.

Greek bust of Tritoness (a minor sea goddess and female counterpart to Triton) or Scylla

Hellenistic period, late 200s BCE

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Italian, 1861-1940