When the battle to film Frida Kahlo’s story began years ago, it would have been hard to imagine former Mexican soap opera star and Hollywood vampire Salma Hayek beating out both the usually ...

The tormented, turbulent and passionate life of legendary painter Frida Kahlo, an artist of unique and bountiful talent-and an icon The tormented, turbulent and passionate life of legendary painter ...

Frida , directed by Julie Taymor, screenplay by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas; based on the book by Hayden Herrera Julie Taymor, director of Frida, the new film about the left ...

The “long-awaited” “Frida” comes to the screen with alarming attributes: eight writers and no less than 16 people serving as some kind of producer. Well, yes, it is hard to make a motion picture, but ...

THE REAL Frida Kahlo remains a truly fascinating artist, self-empowerment icon and feminist leading light, despite the attempts of "Frida" the movie to reduce her rich, tragic and courageous life into ...

Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro has nominated 27 Latino-driven films for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Among the suggestions are films that brought Oscar nominations to Latino actors and ...

If you just can’t get enough Frida, a new musical premiering at the Diego Rivera Theatre may give you something to sing about. ”Frida and Diego” will follow the colorful lives of Mexico’s popular ...

Every era chooses its own heroes, and Frida Kahlo was the perfect feminist heroine for the ’80s. Hayden Herrera’s Frida, the first biography of the then obscure Mexican artist, was published in 1983, ...

The ingredients in the classic mole poblano sauce of Oaxaca, Mexico, resemble the components of Frida Kahlo’s life. The mole starts with chilies, of course (like Frida: dark, temperamental, sometimes ...

Frida Kahlo, who, throughout her life, painted in the shadow of her more famous husband, the Communist muralist Diego Rivera, has finally come into her own in the last decade or two, thanks to the ...