Something Good #111: Souvenirs

Everywhere you go in Mexico City (or should I say, everywhere tourists go), you see Frida Kahlo. Her face stares at you from magnets and murals, t-shirts and tchotchkes. She has ascended into that rare pantheon of artists whose identities have been completely absorbed by mass commerce. Along with van Gogh, Dalí, Haring, 1 and Klimt, she belongs to the mousepads and touring holographic experiences…