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\n\tA former director of museums devoted to Frida Kahlo<\/a> and Diego Rivera<\/a> in Mexico City has accused the trust that oversees those two institutions of years of mismanagement.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement to the Art Newspaper<\/em>, which first reported news of Soto\u2019s claims, the trust said the former director never officially reported concerns about the status of the collections during her tenure.<\/p>\n

\n\tHilda Trujillo Soto, who led the two museums between 2009 and 2020, made her allegations public in an extensive blog post published in early April. She alleged that the trustees failed to properly address a discrepancy in their records centering around Kahlo and Rivera works that may have gone missing. Soto claimed that these works later appeared, without explanation, in private collections in the United States.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe museums\u2019 collections operate with a protected status under Mexican national heritage law and are governed by a trust that was established in 1955 by Rivera, Kahlo\u2019s husband. That trust is now administered by Mexico\u2019s central bank, Banxico.<\/p>\n

\n\tSoto claims that Mexican officials have not responded to several written and in-person requests she\u2019s made since 2020 for audits of financial and historical records related to the museums\u2019 collections.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe further alleged that materials related to Kahlo\u2019s personal diary have been misplaced, as have artworks catalogued as part of an inventory list from 1957, including paintings titled\u00a0Frida in Flames<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Abortion<\/em>. Soto speculated that these works were sold privately and illegally.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe asserted that Mexico\u2019s central bank had violated legal standards around how Rivera\u2019s estate is governed. \u201cSixty-nine years after Diego Rivera\u2019s donation to the \u2018People of Mexico,\u2019 Banxico has failed to fulfill the mandate it accepted to safeguard the museum collections that house part of the national heritage, which is crucial to understanding the history, identity, and memory of our country,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tBanxico officials could not be immediately reached for comment on Trujillo\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trust is currently preparing a major traveling exhibition on Kahlo alongside the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Tate Modern. It\u2019s unclear whether Soto\u2019s claims will impact that exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former director of museums devoted to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City has accused the trust that oversees those two institutions of years of mismanagement. 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