Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera met in 1922. He was a famous muralist. She was 15 and impressionable. Kahlo began to watch Rivera as he painted. He would tell her stories of Paris, the war, and the world of Picasso, Modigliani, and Breton. Though the pair went on to marry, Kahlo did not remain in Rivera’s shadow. He encouraged her to paint—“You have a gift,” he said—and he was right. Fusing international modernism with Mexican folk art, they both depicted the struggles of the working class and made the case for a communist Mexico. Though the pair’s relationship was famously tumultuous, they stayed together until Kahlo’s untimely death, in 1954. This major retrospective brings 150 of their artworks to Australia. Photographs, works on paper, and period clothing round out the show. —Elena Clavarino