MoMA x Met: Frida & Diego
MoMA’s 'Frida and Diego: The Last Dream' opens to the public March 21 with a cross-institution collaboration involving the Metropolitan Opera and over 40 works bridging visual and performing arts. The show promises fresh takes on the creative and personal partnership of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. (eldiariony.com) (efe.com)
Organized by Beverly Adams with stage designer Jon Bausor and curatorial assistants Caitlin Chaisson and Rachel Remick, the show pairs MoMA’s curatorial team with Bausor’s theatrical direction for the gallery installation. (moma.org) MoMA says the installation will present six paintings and a drawing by Frida Kahlo alongside “over a dozen” works by Diego Rivera, plus photographic portraits by Lola Álvarez Bravo and Leo Matiz. (press.moma.org) The Metropolitan Opera’s companion production, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, was composed by Gabriela Lena Frank with a libretto by Nilo Cruz, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker, and is scheduled at the Met from May 14–June 5, 2026. (metopera.org) MoMA highlights specific collection loans on view, including Kahlo’s Self‑Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) and Fulang‑Chang and I (1937), and Rivera’s Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita (1931) and Agrarian Leader Zapata (1931). (press.moma.org) The presentation occupies the Philip Johnson Galleries on MoMA’s third floor and offers member preview access March 18–20 ahead of the public presentation; the museum lists the run through September 12, 2026. (moma.org) Leadership and major funding supporters cited by MoMA include Denise Littlefield Sobel, Steven and Lisa Tananbaum (in honor of David Tananbaum), Monique M. Schoen Warshaw, Jerry Speyer and Katherine Farley, and the Steven A. and Lisa Tananbaum Endowment for Contemporary Art Commissions. (moma.org)
