Patti Smith’s Talismanic Photos from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Home and Beyond

“Patti at William Burroughs’s Grave,” Lawrence, Kansas, 2013
"In 2012, Patti Smith travelled to Mexico City to speak and perform at La Casa Azul, the former home of the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. While visiting the property, which now serves as a museum, Smith took several black-and-white Polaroid photographs of objects she encountered: a pair of crutches that belonged to Kahlo; her worn corset; a white coverlet with crocheted trim, dangling from a wooden bed frame. Those images are part of a new exhibit of Smith’s photographs, titled 'Wing,' which is now on display at the Diego Rivera Gallery, at the San Francisco Art Institute, adjacent to Rivera’s 1931 mural 'The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City.' ..."
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