Thursday, August 9, 2018

Frida Kahlo Exhibition In Hungary Criticized For ‘Promoting Communism’

In an article headlined “This is the way communism is promoted using state money,” the conservative newspaper Magyar Idők, aligned with the nationalist Fidesz party of prime minister Viktor Orbán, wrote about a popular show of the Mexican painter’s work at the Hungarian National Gallery, “You won’t believe it but Trotsky has emerged in Budapest again, this time from Frida Kahlo’s bed.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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