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Upcoming Livestream
Talk | A Ribbon Around a Bomb: Frida Kahlo’s Surrealist Encounter
Thu, Aug 14 | 6:30–7:30 pmJoin us for a talk that reconsiders Frida Kahlo’s relationship with surrealism—suggesting that, even as she refused the label, her fearless exploration of identity, pain, and revolution embodied the true spirit of surrealist revolt.
Dr. Elliott King is co-editor of Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting, Associate Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University. Reflecting on André Breton’s enthusiastic encounter with her paintings in 1937, Dr. King will explore whether Kahlo belongs to surrealism by examining how we define the movement: If surrealism is understood narrowly as “melting clocks,” bowler hats, and unconscious automatism, Kahlo stands apart. But if we return to surrealism’s revolutionary roots—its commitment to freedom of thought and radical self-expression—Kahlo’s art resonates deeply with those aims.
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Annual Paul Mellon Lecture | Horse in Majesty: Horse and Court Life in 16th–19th Century Europe
Fri, Nov 14 | 6:30–7:30 pmPast Livestreams
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Additional support is generously provided by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.
ABOVE One Night at Jimmy’s We Saw the Supremes on Color Television, ca.1965–67, Willie Anne Wright (American, born 1924), Liquitex on canvas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, General Endowment Fund. © Willie Anne Wright