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Trying to assemble a list of the top five art shows of any year always starts with a mine field of exceptions and caveats. To start, at any given time the person giving their opinion has only seen about 5% of all available art shows, especially in a city as culturally rich and diverse such as Philadelphia, which is lucky to have so many art galleries heroically attempting to survive in an area where not too many people buy artwork. We're also lucky to have some of the best universities and colleges in the nation around here, each offering their own visual arts programs on a monthly basis, as well as one of the planet's best art museums in our own PMA.

Walking into the Philadelphia Museum of Art's gallery where Frida Kahlo's iconic Las Dos Fridas (The Two Fridas) hangs as part of the PMA's massive Frida Kahlo exhibition brought forth memories of first seeing that memorable painting in Mexico City over 30 years ago.

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Reader F. Lennox Campello tips us off in his blog that our favorite unibrowed artist, Frida Kahlo, will be featured in an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art sometime in early 2008. It will be "the first American exhibition solely dedicated to Kahlo’s work in over a decade... [and] will explore the relationship between her art and her life by examining hauntingly seductive and often brutal self-portraits in addition to works that amplify her...