austin_dern (austin_dern) wrote,
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Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away

I continue to work my way through the Museo Frida Kahlo.

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Peeking into Frida Kahlo's medicine chest, or possibly just more art supplies. I know what Sal Hepatica is for, although I'm not sure why a person would have purified walnut oil.


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Kahlo's bedroom, with dresser, cabinet, and wall motto that I just don't understand.


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Bedroom radio! Featuring a (hand-made?) wood carrying case. Notice the pencilled in labels for the volume and channel dials.


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And here Kahlo's daybed, with what I bet you all think is a mirror right above her pillow.


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Nope! It's a display of butterflies!


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Looking back at the gallery from the stairway leading from the daybed room to the courtyard.


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Snake sculpture on display underneath the stairs leading outside. There were some exhibitions from various non-Kahlo, non-Rivera artists there.


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Overhang with a continuous-loop documentary about Kahlo playing. It was in Spanish, naturally, although it had enough of the pacing and tone of an English-language documentary that between that and pictures of institutions I was following along with all the confidence of a white guy in a country where he doesn't speak the language.


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Courtyard picture of Diego Rivera holding a seal for the reasons.


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I didn't see anyone taking pictures of themselves with their heads in this photo stand-in of Kahlo and husband.


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An activity set up in the courtyard as part of the temporary exhibit, about Kahlo's fashion design: rotate the columns to mix and match various of Kahlo's outfits.


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And here's part of the temporary exhibit. This shows off braces, corsets, crutches, and other tools that Kahlo designed and used to keep herself functional.


Trivia: The county of Nice was not fully a part of France until 1860. Source: The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, Graham Robb.

Currently Reading: Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York, Oliver A Rink.

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