One way to keep warm this winter is by seeking refuge in a museum. Safe from the elements, it is easy to while away the day taking in the permanent collections. If you visit one of these six museums, there are currently fascinating temporary exhibitions, like the Art Institute Chicago's dive into Frida Kahlo's friendship with Mary Reynolds and the Tate Modern's celebration of Leigh Bowery's audacious performance art.
'A Room of Her Own: The Estrados of Viceregal Spain,' the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York City "A Room of Her Own: The Estrados of Viceregal Spain" offers a glimpse into the estrados, or private drawing rooms for women, "once found in the homes of the elite in Spain and the Spanish Americas," Vogue said. These curated spaces of both "opulence and confinement" contained valuable and rare books, paintings and decorative items and today are "bound up in complex notions of gender, cultural exchange, colonialism and power." This is the first exhibition of its kind on estrados, and many of the more than 60 "exquisite" items on display from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library's permanent collection have never been on view before now.
(Through March 9, 2025) 'Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds,' Art Institute Chicago Frida Kahlo made only one trip to Europe, traveling from Mexico to France in January 1939. It was on this visit that she had a "brief yet pivotal encounter" with American bookbinder Mary Reynolds, who "stood at the ce.
