Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera extended until 9 Oct

If you have yet to see the summer blockbuster exhibition, ‘Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Masterpieces from the Gelman Collection’, you now have an extra week to make the trip as the exhibition has been extended due to overwhelming popular demand. Over 30 000 visitors have poured through the doors since the exhibition opened on [...]

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Frida, Diego and many friends in Chichester

The Pallant House Gallery in Chichester is a unique combination of historic house and modern art gallery.The main exhibition I had travelled to see was Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Masterpieces from The Gelman Collection – Frida’s work and her story had always intrigued me. And I had recently finished reading Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna – [...]

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A Turbulent Union

On Sunday I am heading to Chichester by train to see this exhibition – Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera | Pallant House Gallery, until October 2. Can’t wait to see this one – I do seem to be concentrating more on historical exhibitions but it is just so good to see some of these works [...]

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What I’m Reading Now… The Lacuna

‘You had better write all this in your notebook, she said, the story of what happened to us in Mexico. So when nothing is left of us but bones, someone will know where we went.’ Born in the US, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to [...]

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