Topic: Frida Kahlo
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3 new novels about young people on a mission
Characters wonder if they're the right ones for the job in these talked-about new novels.
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Latin America Monitor Mexico's got theater in unusual spaces
With stages set up in street cars, Mexico City is celebrating its first Festival of Theater in Unusual Spaces and giving a new outlet for the city's emerging artists.
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3 new novels about young people on a mission
Characters wonder if they're the right ones for the job in these talked-about new novels.
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Diego Rivera: honoring a big Communist with a Google doodle
President Obama, Occupy protesters, and even the Muppets have been accused of communist leanings. But Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was the real thing.
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Scaling down the artist's studio
Joe Fig interviewed artists and reproduced their work spaces to gain insight into the creative process.
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Art market: masterful returns
Art funds let you own a share of a portfolio. Some funds have bested the S&P 500.
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The women of pop art
Long sidelined, women artists slowly win recognition – and museum space.
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"Running the Books": Avi Steinberg talks about life as a prison librarian
Memoirist Avi Steinberg reflects on the humor, sadness, scariness, and "just utter strangeness" of working in a prison.
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Frida Kahlo biography: How is she remembered?
Frida Kahlo biography takes many forms online: tales, galleries, and videos.
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Three "beautiful" Orange Prize finalists
Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna" was one of "three beautiful daughters" agonized over by this year's Orange Prize judges.
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Barbara Kingsolver wins the Orange Prize for "The Lacuna"
Barbara Kingsolver's sixth novel – a book that moves between Mexico and the cold war-era US – wins the Orange Prize for fiction.
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The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver magnificently re-creates 1930s Mexico City in her first novel in nine years.
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The heart of Latin art
It's not just folk, it's fusion. Exhibitions nationwide spotlight a bold and visionary tradition.
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Mexican street art with an edge
Oaxaca's art first burst onto the city's walls in 2006 after protesters clashed with police.
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And the (zillionth) winner is ...
With some innovative – and ludicrous – new prizes, the writer honors, well, just about everyone
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Frida Kahlo: a full life, fully expressed
Behind Kahlo's carefully cultivated facade was a person for whom art was a lifeline.
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