Casa Kahlo: Frida Kahlo's Home and Sanctuary
Frida Kahlo's great-nieces offer an inside look at Casa Roja, the family home where Frida found refuge, with never-before-published letters, photographs, and personal treasures.
Why we picked this
The family home where Frida actually lived, not the Blue House museum—and the people presenting are her great-nieces, who opened a new museum there in 2025. This is primary source territory.
Most people who know Frida Kahlo know the Blue House—La Casa Azul in Coyoacán, the museum that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. Casa Roja is the other house: the family home in Mexico City where Kahlo found refuge and where her great-nieces have now opened a new museum, the Museo Casa Kahlo, in 2025. This event brings three of those great-nieces to the Block Museum to discuss the home and the book Casa Kahlo they’ve written about it.
The book draws on never-before-published letters, photographs, early artworks, and personal treasures from the family archive. Mara Romeo Kahlo is President of Familia Kahlo and the founder of the new museum. Mara De Anda is co-founder of the Museo Casa Kahlo. Frida Hentschel is treasurer of the Kahlo Foundation.
The conversation is moderated by Cesáreo Moreno, who has served as Chief Curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago since 2004. Part of the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Northwestern University festival day.