Frida Kahlo Retrospective Presells 41,000 Tate Modern Tickets, Breaking Museum Record
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 6
Frida Kahlo Retrospective Presells 41,000 Tate Modern Tickets, Breaking Museum Record
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 6
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More than 41,000 tickets were sold before “Frida: The Making of an Icon” opened last week, giving Tate Modern a presale record for the retrospective running through Jan. 3.
The surge comes as the museum is simultaneously hosting “Tracey Emin: A Second Life,” whose four-decade survey has already drawn a record 234,000 visitors since opening in February and runs until Aug. 31.
Tate’s pairing has created parallel blockbusters: visitors queueing for Kahlo nearly reach the entrance to Emin, while the Kahlo show includes Mary McCartney’s 2000 photograph “Being Frida, London” of Emin.
The overlap underscores the museum’s broader framing of Kahlo and Emin as artists linked by candid, autobiographical work and by Kahlo’s influence on later contemporary artists.