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Frida Kahlo’s Sweet Multi-Million Dollar Revenge

 “There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolly and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.” Last November, Frida Kahlo’s Diego y yo was sold at auction for an impressive $34.9 million, breaking the record for the highest sold artwork by a Latin American Artist, and surpassing […]

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Women of the world: culture’s most heroic characters

Image courtesy of Toni Frissel.  While not many would dispute that, even by modern standards, the public and creative sphere is still a man’s world, there is no doubt that artistic representations of women throughout history have inspired and empowered movements toward gender equality. In honour of the recent passing of International Women’s Day, 2016, […]