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CP30885065 — This undated photo provided by the New York Botanical Garden, a 1940 painting entitled “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird,” by Frida Kahlo is shown. The painting will join more than a dozen works by the artist at an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx borough of New York. The exhibition runs from May 16 to Nov. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Frida Kahlo via The New York Botanical Garden)

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s native garden to be reimagined at New York Botanical Garden

Nov 26, 2014 23:11:00

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s (FREE’-duh KAY’-lohz) native garden and studio will be reimagined at the New York Botanical Garden in the spring.

The garden will use flowers and plants native to Mexico in the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life.”

It will open May 16 and run through Nov. 1. The exhibition will reflect the bright colours and textures of Kahlo’s portraits and still lifes.

The garden says it will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City in more than 25 years.

The exhibition will feature about a dozen original paintings and drawings highlighting her use of botanical imagery.

Photos of Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, also will be shown.

Kahlo died in 1954.

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