Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s love story stands as one of history’s most tumultuous. They met in 1928, when Kahlo was recovering from a devastating bus accident that wrecked her spine. He was a world-renowned artist; she, an aspiring one. He told her, “You have talent.” In 1929, they married—her parents called it a union between “an elephant and a dove.” Ten years of screaming matches, competition, miscarriages, and heartbreak followed. Rivera slept with Kahlo’s younger sister, Cristina, and in 1939 Kahlo and Rivera divorced. Less than a year later, they remarried in San Francisco and stayed together until Kahlo’s death, in 1954. The Metropolitan Opera is premiering a new production of Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (2022), which begins on the Day of the Dead, with Rivera summoning the deceased Kahlo back to life. This exhibition at MoMA brings together works by both artists within the set design that Jon Bausor created for the Met Opera production. —Elena Clavarino