22-06-2026 17:44 via artnews.com

Tate Modern’s Frida Kahlo Exhibition Has Already Sold a Record 41,000 Advance Tickets

Madonna collects her. Her work sets auction records for women artists. Netflix is developing a series about her. She’s the subject of an opera.Now, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has another claim to fame. “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month at London’s Tate Modern, has pre-sold 41,000 tickets, a record for the institution, reports the Guardian. That beats the 32,000 advance sales for the museum’s 2017 David Hockney exhibition.“We’re pretty b
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