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"Sometimes Frida Kahlo is reduced to her suffering - but she burned with fierce ambition"

Director LOUISE LOCKWOOD (left) tells us about her new television series charting the colourful life and times of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo

The image of Frida Kahlo [1907-54] is everywhere in popular culture, but she remains somehow elusive. Is there a sense of someone who hid

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