Readers respond to an editorial about the artist’s legacy and the impact of the Tate Modern’s blockbuster exhibition
In her own time, Frida Kahlo (Editorial, 26 June) did not enjoy the financial success that her so-called legacy does now. There’s a message there. Perhaps we should be rethinking how we invest in art and artists. The current Tate Modern exhibition hosts 30 Kahlo works and is padded out with more than 200 artworks by others.
Perhaps her spin-off has some good, but given that minimal visitors will know anything about Mexican art, to enable them to contextualise her canon, arguably we might ask if hosting Kahlo exhibitions ad nauseam (currently showing in London, New York and Italy) makes her legacy more significant or simply encourages more cushion covers to be printed.
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