The piece, titled “El sueño (La cama),” or “The Dream (The Bed),” now holds the record for the most expensive work by any Latin American artist sold at auction. The canvas, created in 1940, is a ...

NEW YORK — A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo of her asleep in a bed could make history Thursday when it goes on sale by Sotheby’s in New York. With an estimated price of $40 ...

An arresting self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, featuring the artist slumbering beneath a tangle of vines in a carved canopy bed with a skeleton reclining above her, set records at a Sotheby's auction on ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Frida Kahlo’s "El sueño (La ...

In the middle of a huge bed floating in a cloudy sky, the silhouette of Frida Kahlo, her jet hair sweeping across the pillow, disappears beneath the embrace of a yellow blanket and a leafy branch. The ...

SANTA BARBARA, CA – November 6, 2025 – Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) of Santa Barbara, the city’s oldest arts organization, announces a significant leadership transition. After a ...

Universal Pictures is returning to one of its most beloved action-adventure franchises, with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in discussions to return for a new Mummy movie, presumably reprising their ...

Construction of the Sagrada Familia began in 1882, and it is now a meter (3.2 feet) taller than a church in southern Germany, which until now had been the world's tallest. Barcelona's iconic Sagrada ...

Even if you don't remember anything else from that Spanish class you took in high school, you do know how to say “Let’s go to the beach.” For that you can thank the smash hit song of 1983: “Vamos a la ...

Frida Kahlo painted The Dream (The Bed) in 1940 during a period of “intense personal trauma and creative renewal,” according to Sotheby's. Sotheby's When a self-portrait by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo ...

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Frida Kahlo’s face is one of the best known in art, thanks to her bold and challenging self-portraits. A lesser-seen self-depiction by the Mexican artist is going up for auction at Sotheby’s in what ...