Kahlo, Klimt and the Commodification of Art No One Owns
You Can’t Buy Taste But Now You Can Cook with It?
8 min readMar 31, 2019
How did an eccentric former model and the central bank of Mexico come to mismanage as much of Frida Kahlo’s estate as Kahlo’s own niece?¹ How is it that a former muse of Diego Rivera withheld some of Kahlo’s most famous paintings while the Mexican government failed to enforce the…