When Frida Kahlo was a little girl she wanted to be a doctor. But at 18, while riding a bus, a crash left her fighting for her life. Encased in a full body cast for many months, Kahlo started to paint. Chronic pain, physical disability, trips to the hospital, and constant examination of her body would plague her life and inform her art. In an exhibition organized by Monica Ramirez-Montegut, director of the Parrish, and Christina Kahlo, Frida’s grandniece, photos, letters, and medical records flesh out Kahlo’s reality. Previously unseen archival materials help to situate recurring images in Kahlo’s art—her heart, torso, mouth. We are left staring at the plain truth of it all: portraits of the artist on her deathbed. —Clara Molot