"Whatever your preconceptions about Kahlo, it's hard to leave this show unimpressed by her huge resilience, and without feeling just a little in love with this extraordinary woman." Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph
"Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up is a larger version of the inaugural viewing of the Casa Azul stash that took place in Mexico City earlier this year. It is intimate and epic in scale, the juxtapositioning of artworks with the items that appear in them here some jewellery, there a headdress compelling." Anna Murphy, The Times
"an extraordinary testimony to suffering and spirit" The Observer
"A room of her personal belongings, which had been sealed since her death, was opened, and its contents put on display at the Blue House it is a real coup for the V&A to be able to borrow this collection." Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian
