The Art Institute of Chicago has unveiled its exhibition schedule for the first half of 2025—and a new look at the late LGBTQ+ artist Frida Kahlo is included.
“Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds” is slated to run March 29–July 13. Drawing upon the museum’s holdings of The Mary Reynolds Collection along with loans from public and private collections, this will be the institute’s first presentation of Kahlo’s work.
Focusing on Kahlo’s brief stay with Reynolds, a bookbinder, in Paris in 1939, this exhibition “examines the iconic Mexican artist’s work among various characters and recalls the legacy of two women navigating Surrealism, identity, and cross-cultural exchange on the eve of World War II,” a release stated.
The venue will also run “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World” on June 29–Oct. 5. The sexuality of Caillebotte (1848-94), a French artist, was and still is the source of much speculation.
Other exhibitions include “Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking” (running March 15-June 1); “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” (March 15-June 29); and “En el principio / In the beginning: Juliana Góngora Rojas, Matías Quintero Sepúlveda, Juven Piranga Valencia and Yinela Piranga Valencia” (March 29–July 28).