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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1759626844493CASA-KAHLO-001-11-2.png" style="width:916px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Casa Kahlo/website</div>MEXICO CITY — A new Frida Kahlo museum reveals a warm and loving side of the famed Mexican artist, giving visitors a look at her private life beyond the pain and rawness of her well-known works.The Casa Kahlo museum, opened a week ago by Kahlo&#x27;s descendants in Mexico City, is imbued with the spirit of a family where women set the tone.&quot;She&#x27;s aunt Frida, daughter Frida, a Frida situated in the intimacy and security of family,&quot; said Adan Garcia Fajardo, director of the new museum.Located in a building that was once Kahlo&#x27;s parents&#x27; home and later her sister Cristina&#x27;s home, it hosted lively gatherings of family and friends and was a studio for young painters studying with Kahlo.The exhibition includes nine original works and countless personal items, as well as photographs taken by Kahlo&#x27;s father Guillermo.&quot;Visiting this museum, you learn more about Frida not as an artist, but as a woman,&quot; 19-year-old student Aranza Vazquez said after her visit. &quot;I feel like it was a place that belonged to her, where she could be herself.&quot;Kahlo&#x27;s close relationship with her sister Cristina -- whom she called &quot;the other half of my life&quot; -- is a major theme of the museum, as the house was a refuge for the painter who suffered from poor health and pain for much of her life.Here, &quot;Frida felt safe...she came to rest from the world, to distance herself, to listen to music, to create, to write, to draw,&quot; Garcia Fajardo explained.Unlike Casa Azul, a Kahlo museum located in the home that the artist shared with her husband, Mexican painter Diego Rivera, Casa Kahlo seeks to &quot;dismantle the monopoly&quot; of her history that until now has come from a male perspective, he said.<div> </div>© Agence France-Presse

A new Frida Kahlo museum reveals a warm and loving side of the famed Mexican artist, giving visitors a look at her private life beyond the pain and rawness of her well-known works.

A new Frida Kahlo museum reveals a warm and loving side of the famed Mexican artist, giving visitors a look at her private life beyond the pain and rawness of her well-known works.

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New museum examines family life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo

Agence France-Presse

Published Oct 05, 2025 10:20 AM PHT

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