Discovering Frida Kahlo's Mexico City

While in Mexico City about six weeks ago, I made my second trip to what's become one of my favorite museums dedicated to a specific artist, the Museo Frida Kahlo, which occupies the blue-walled hacienda (hence the name of the house, Casa Azul) in which the iconoclastic, bisexual artist worked and resided during the last two decades of her life. Part of the fun of visiting this museum, apart from the fact that several cute and friendly cats wander freely among the compound's luxuriant gardens and courtyards, is that it's located in a charming, pedestrian-friendly colonial suburb of Mexico City, called Coyoacan (easily reached by Metro or a 20- to 30-minute taxi ride). In same neighborhood as the Kahlo Museum, which is filled with Frida's paintings as well as a trove of artifacts and furnishings, you can also visit Museo Casa de Leon Trotsky, where the exiled Russian revolutionary resided until he was murdered - when you tour the museum, you visit the actual room in which he was awkwardly, but successfully, dispatched with an ice axe....Read Full Post

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