Recording Artists: Frida Kahlo
b"Enjoy this episode from season 2 of Getty's other podcast, Recording Artists. This series features materials from Getty's archives. This season, titled Intimate Addresses, highlights artists' letters. \\n\\n\\n\\nTo hear the rest of the season, subscribe to Recording Artists on your favorite podcast app or on our website here.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nIn 1944, Frida Kahlo is at a crossroads, both in terms of her health and her career. In April of that year, with World War II dragging on, she writes to her gallerist\\u2014and former lover\\u2014Julien Levy. In this tender and personal letter, she moves from the logistical challenges of sending art across national borders during wartime, to describing her painful new steel corsets, to asking after her many friends in New York, where Levy lives. Unpacking this letter and exploring Kahlo\\u2019s words written in her own hand provides a new understanding of an artist who has become larger than life in the years since her death at age 47.\\n\\n\\n\\nIn this episode of Recording Artists: Intimate Addresses, host Tess Taylor highlights Kahlo\\u2019s vibrant personality, tracing how her artistic career developed alongside her long-running health struggles and her now-iconic style and persona. Anna Deavere Smith voices the letter. Photographer and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, whose work often addresses pain and the body, provides her artist\\u2019s insight while historian Circe Henestrosa, who co-curated the Kahlo exhibition Making Herself Up at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2018, shares charming anecdotes and important details of Kahlo\\u2019s life.\\n\\n\\n\\nFor transcripts, images, and additional resources visit our website."