Kahlo at the MFA
Frida Kahlo was an artistic genius and her works are not only rare but beautiful (“MFA leaps to purchase rare Frida Kahlo piece,’’ A1, Jan. 27). I’ll be thrilled to see this piece as part of the MFA’s permanent collection!
JUNIE24
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I honestly don’t see the appeal. It looks like (much) better than average folk art. I’ve only seen about 20 of her paintings (and just reproductions so I’m keeping an open mind until I see the new MFA acquisition), but there isn’t much variety.
John
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Frida Kahlo is one of the most fascinating persons, and one of the most thrilling artists, of the last century. Congratulations to the MFA for this acquisition. Not only is the work in itself elegant and articulate, it also tells us a great deal about Kahlo’s sensibilities, and vision, from early on.
caniscandida
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No resemblance to rehab
I think if you have to wonder “if there’s a place for a show that soft-sells the rigors of addiction and sobriety, that makes the idea of recovery look almost desirable,’’ you have provided the answer (“Does ‘Recovery Road’ romanticize getting sober?,’’ SundayArts, Jan. 24).
RICKPAT
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I’m a “dual diagnoses’’ (addiction/psych) nurse who even thought “Heroin: Cape Cod, USA’’ looked too attractive. Addiction in the young is ugly, just plain ugly. A bunch of Hollywood pretty people as pictured soft-pedals the image of recovery which is also ugly. I’m of the belief that anything that even minutely softens the image of addiction scoops up young people into this whole romantic idea of drug dependence. It still looks cool to your young, disenfranchised kid. I see it every day.
Spare me.
FRANSBEVY
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Failed strategy
I may misunderstand Katharine Whittemore’s point, but closing her Sunday Globe book reviews with “our tragic complicity’’ indicates she has mistaken the harm caused by the cartels with the harm caused by the American-led global policy of drug prohibition (“Tracing lines in the drug trade,’’ SundayArts, Jan. 2). Following Portugal’s successful decriminalization of all drugs — drastically lowering overdose and addiction rates — Mexico, Colombia, and other South American and European countries decriminalized personal possession amounts of all illegal drugs. The problem is not the users, the drugs, or even the gangs; the problem is prohibition, a policy countries around the world are questioning, limiting, and ending.
Michael D. Cutler
Northampton
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