{"id":661463,"date":"2026-06-27T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661463\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:26:13","slug":"frida-kahlo-the-story-of-a-global-phenomenon-from-mexico-city-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661463\/","title":{"rendered":"Frida Kahlo: The story of a global phenomenon from Mexico City \u2013 Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 70 years after her death, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo\u2019s image is everywhere: on tote bags, t-shirts, posters.<\/p>\n<p>Yet behind the commercialisation lies a deeper question: why does Frida Kahlo continue to move millions around the world?<\/p>\n<p>A new exhibition at Tate Modern, Frida: The Making of an Icon, attempts to come up with an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than a traditional retrospective of her work, It explores how a young female artist from Mexico City became a global phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 70 years after her death, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo\u2019s image is everywhere: on tote bags,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}