The Lilith Blog

December 23, 2020 by Eleanor J. Bader

Art and Aid: an Interview with Margot Spindelman

When crises hit — whether fire, flood, or global pandemic — righteous people mobilize by bringing food, water, clothing, medical care and emotional support to those in need. These mutual aid networks often do what governments do not: offer concrete help to communities long ignored by public agencies.

Not surprisingly, COVID has led to a surge in such networks, with individuals in every part of the country phoning isolated seniors, feeding the hungry, tutoring kids and helping society’s most vulnerable populations with everyday chores.

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April 2, 2019 by admin

Frida Kahlo •

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo—maybe you knew her first via her iconic unibrow—came to defined through her multiple ethnicities, disability and politics, all of which were at the heart of her work. Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving is the first exhibition in the United States to display alongside important paintings, drawings, and photographs a collection of her clothing and other personal possessions, plus historical film and ephemera. Kahlo’s ”stuff”—from her Tehuana clothing and contemporary and pre-Colonial jewelry to the hand-painted corsets and prosthetics Kahlo used as a result of lifelong painful injuries sustained from a bus accident as a young woman. These artifacts had been stored in Casa Azul (Blue House), the longtime Mexico City home of Kahlo and her husband, artist Diego Rivera. At the Brooklyn Museum through May 12.

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