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We’re always trying to save Frida Kahlo from commodification – just ask Salma Hayek

ART: Battles have long raged over how the Mexican artist should be represented in the public sphere. As Tate Modern unveils a new exhibition showcasing (some of) her work and the many products that have made her ‘a global brand’, Adam White looks back at the disturbing making of the…

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Frida: The Making of an Icon review: Where is Kahlo among all this Fridamania?

3/5 With so few of Frida Kahlo’s paintings on show at the blockbuster Tate Modern exhibition, visitors might feel short-changed, writes Anny Shaw

Evening Standard

‘Rude, heavy-drinking and a committed communist’: the Frida Kahlo you can’t buy in the gift shop

The artist’s likeness has become a symbol of resistance and heroism – but the truth is more complicated. As a major exhibition opens in London, has brand Frida obscured the real Kahlo?

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Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern: how a radical artist became a global icon

Frida: The Making of an Icon at Tate Modern is the first major interrogation of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s legacy in London for 25 years. It already has more advance sales than any exhibition in Tate history.

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The reason why Tate’s blockbuster Frida Kahlo show has so few works by the Mexican artist

ART: The major summer show looks at how Kahlo has become an icon, writes Annabel Nugent, and it’s something that a leading feminist art historian says the painter actually initiated herself

The Independent UK

The Making of an Icon: How did Frida Kahlo’s face - and monobrow - suddenly end up everywhere?

Stylised and simplified, Kahlo’s likeness can now be found on t-shirts, tote bags, eye masks, phone cases, oven mitts and plant pots.

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New Tate Modern exhibition examines ‘extreme commodification’ of Frida Kahlo

Frida: The Making of an Icon will feature more than 200 commercial objects that encompass Kahlo’s art, image, style and persona

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Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art

Frida Kahlo took self-portraiture to new levels of interior revelation and her work takes you deep into her mystery. So why is this show padded out with responses by lesser artists?

The Guardian - UK

Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record

Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux tapestry

The Guardian - UK

Fabulous Frida, classic Constable and a Cornish welcome for Kasuba – the week in art

Tate Modern celebrates everything Kahlo, the British Museum marks John Constable’s 250th birthday, while Claydon prepares for an invasion

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‘Is it true she bombed her school?’ My thrilling week in the footsteps of Frida Kahlo

The bar she drank at, the bed she recuperated in, the canals she daytripped to, the studio she stormed out of, the easel she painted her final masterpiece at … ahead of a major Tate show, our writer finds Kahlo’s spirit alive in Mexico City

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney hailed for ‘reshaping the course of modern art’ after death at 88

He was one of the most significant British artists of modern times.

Evening Standard

Win a Tate membership, Tracey Emin merch and more

Enter our competition to snag lunch for two, an arty blanket and a year of free Tate entry as part of our partnership with Tate for Emin’s A Second Life exhibition

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Tate & Lyle: Why are so many UK firms being taken over?

The board of Tate & Lyle have backed the move by a US competitor to take it into private hands.

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Tate & Lyle agrees £2.7bn US takeover in latest blow to London market

The deal comes after a recent spate of swoops for UK companies by foreign firms.

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Ingredion buys Tate & Lyle in £2.7 billion takeover deal

Illinois-based Ingredion Incorporated will pay up to 615p per share for the London-listed company

Evening Standard

Tate & Lyle agrees £2.7bn takeover by US rival

Illinois-based Ingredion Incorporated will pay up to 615p per share for London-listed Tate & Lyle.

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Tate & Lyle H2 Earnings Call Highlights

Tate & Lyle (LON:TATE) said its full-year results were in line with revised guidance, as muted market demand and regional weakness offset progress from the integration of CP Kelco and ongoing productivity efforts. Opening the results presentation for the year ended March 31, 2026, Nick said the

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Fantastic visions and cosmic rhythms: how Whistler is making me see – and hear – differently

A new exhibition at Tate Britain includes canvases titled after symphonies and nocturnes, but the inspiration flows in both directions. Plus, how Felicity Lott led me to an epiphany

The Independent UK

James McNeill Whistler: Mum isn’t the only word at this magnificent Tate Britain show

5/5 The first major exhibition on the American artist for 30 years reveals a showman whose sublime, minimal artworks far transcend the famous painting of his mother that has often overshadowed them

Evening Standard

Tate & Lyle in talks over £2.7bn takeover tilt from US rival

London-listed Tate & Lyle said it had received an approach from Illinois-based Ingredion worth 615p per share in cash.

The Guardian - UK

Most famous image of JMW Turner not a self-portrait, says expert

Painting that inspired depiction on £20 note more likely the work of John Opie, says Romantic artist’s biographer

The Guardian - UK

The car park that changed British art: Bold Tendencies at 20

Two decades after it opened in a multi-storey in Peckham in London, the space has redrawn the map for how to present art – with rooftop cocktails and the pink staircase that launched a thousand selfies

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Tracey Emin Chose This Farrow & Ball Paint for the Backdrop to Her Tate Modern Retrospective — It's a Color That Makes You Feel Calm, Attentive, and Present

Inspired by the unusual pigmentation of mud and cockles mixing on a Norfolk beach, the color lends a night sky-like atmosphere to the landmark show of one of Britain's all-time greatest artists

Evening Standard

V&A Museum deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Chinese censors

Chinese printers objected to a map of China and an image of Lenin which fell foul of Beijing’s censorship body

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