92103 <p>The Ransom Center celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940). Since 1990 the painting has been on almost continuous loan, featured in exhibitions at 28 museums in the U. S. and around the world, including Australia, Canada, France, and Spain.<br />Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) taught herself how to paint after she was severely injured in a bus accident at the age of 18. For Kahlo, painting became an act of cathartic ritual and her symbolic images portray a cycle of pain, death, and rebirth. Kahlo's affair in New York City with her friend, the photographer Nickolas Muray (American, b. Hungary, 1892-1965), and subsequent divorce from the artist Diego Rivera left her heartbroken and lonely, but she produced some of her most powerful and compelling self-portraits during this time period.<br />Muray purchased the Center's self-portrait from Kahlo to help her during a difficult financial period. It is part of the Nickolas Muray collection of more than 100 works of art, which was acquired by the Center in 1966.</p> http://do512.com/event/2009/05/05/frida-kahlos-self-portrait-with-thorn-necklace-and-hummingbird http://do512.com/event/2009/05/05/frida-kahlos-self-portrait-with-thorn-necklace-and-hummingbird.xml Tuesday 05/05/09 20090505T150000Z/20090505T150000Z false 0 5.0 10:00 AM Tue, 05 May 2009 10:00:00 -0500 Tue, 05 May 2009 10:00:00 -0500 1 TUE http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/232284/Frida_Kahlo_Self_PortraitKUT_sq_90.jpg Harry Ransom Center 911 http://do512.com/venue/harry-ransom-center http://do512.com/venue/harry-ransom-center.xml

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Austin TX 78712 harryransomcenter http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/129927/1_poster.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/232284/Frida_Kahlo_Self_PortraitKUT.jpg If paintings had passports, the one belonging to Frida Kahlo's `Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird' would be filled with stamps from around the globe. <a href="http://www.austin360.com/calendar/events2/etc/userEventDisplay.jspd?eventStatus=Approved&eventid=240639">more at www.austin360.com</a>