Looking Back on Frida Kahlo With Fresh Eyes
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
Looking Back on Frida Kahlo With Fresh Eyes
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An Artist Creates Moments for Play, and Solidarity
British artist Sonia Boyce’s first U.S. museum exhibition, Demonstrate, celebrates art as a collective, community-driven practice. In her immersive installation, she captures spontaneous moments of music, movement, and collaboration at the Queens Museum, reflecting her belief that creativity emerges through shared experiences. A pioneer of the British Black Arts Movement, Boyce has spent four decades exploring identity, participation, and solidarity, transforming everyday interactions into powerful expressions of connection and collective imagination.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Rahel Kesselring, the Fondation Beyeler’s first Botanical Curator, is redefining how one of the world’s leading art institutions approaches its landscape. In this interview, she explains how her interdisciplinary practice positions the museum’s grounds as a living site for ecology, conservation, and public engagement. By exploring plants as systems of knowledge rather than simply specimens, she demonstrates how botanical thinking can reshape our understanding of art, culture, and the natural world.
THE PLANT MAGAZINE
A new Tate Modern exhibition portrays Frida Kahlo beyond her global icon status and “Fridamania” image. It traces her life in more detail, from childhood illness and a devastating bus accident to her political beliefs, feminism, bisexuality, and strong connection to Mexican Indigenous dress and culture. While often remembered for her self-portraits and symbolic style, the show also highlights her humour, resilience, and the way she shaped a complex identity through both art and lived experience.
ANOTHER MAGAZINE
Olivia Wilde reflects on the fallout from her previous film and public scrutiny of her personal life, describing how negative press and online narratives reshaped her image. After stepping back to focus on therapy, travel, and parenting, she speaks of rebuilding herself and her perspective. Now she returns with new projects, including The Invite, one of Sundance’s largest sales, and sees her recent work as part of a more grounded, self-defined chapter.
THE CUT
Adeline Rudolph, a Hong Kong-born German-Korean actress, is stepping into the global spotlight with Mortal Kombat II after early TV roles in Riverdale, Sabrina, and Resident Evil. In conversation, she reflects on growing up in a conservative, business-focused environment, discovering acting later in life, and navigating her mixed cultural identity. Now entering blockbuster cinema as Kitana, she describes her career as built on collaboration, and finding freedom through performance.