– Frida Kahlo's Clothes Go on Display in Mexico: A full collection of artist Frida Kahlo's wardrobe is going on view at the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City after being locked away for nearly 50 years. Some of jewelry, shoes, and clothes still carry the scent of her perfume and cigarette smoke, as well as stains from painting. Fashion designers and photographers have long been captivated by Kahlo's fashion sense; Gaultier produced an homage to her in his 1998 collection. The exhibition is sponsored by Vogue Mexico (which has mined the Frida look before — see our Video of the Day, below). [AP]

– Art HK Founder Plans Istanbul Fair: The co-founder of Art HK, Sandy Angus, is launching a new modern and contemporary art fair in Istanbul next September, to run alongside the Istanbul Biennial. (This is the second fair in the works for the art entrepreneur — he and his Art HK partner Tim Etchells are also working on a new London fair, Art13.) ArtInternational Istanbul will take place in a vast former wool mill in the center of the city from September 15 to 17. "We are responding to an increasing demand from conversations with galleries worldwide and from within Turkey's burgeoning arts community," said the fair's director Dyala Nusseibeh. [TAN]

– Museum of Natural History Gets $10-Million Donation: Thanks to a $10-million gift from the Richard S. and Karen LeFrak Charitable Foundation, hundreds of thousands of New York City schoolchildren and summer campers will be able to visit the American Museum of Natural History for free. In honor of the donation, the museum will name its fourth-floor special exhibition gallery — the newest and largest temporary exhibition space — the LeFrak Family Gallery. [NYT]

– Frank Lloyd Wright's Phoenix House Safe — For Now: The city of Phoenix and a developer who was poised to demolish a spherical home Frank Lloyd Wright built for his son in 1952 have reached an agreement that will put any construction on hold for one month. "I'm pretty confident that given sufficient time, the home will be purchased by someone who will not only consent to historic landmark status ... but will also consent to a perpetual conservation easement," said Brendan Mahoney, a senior advisor to Phoenix's mayor. [AP]

– Bosnia-Herzegovina's National Museum to Close: The National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina will close today after 124 years, a victim of a political funding crisis that is devastating the nation's cultural institutions. Though the museum survived three wars without ever closing completely, "it seems it will not survive the peace," said deputy director Marcia Filipovic. Bosnia has already lost its national art gallery this year, and campaigners say at least five other cultural institutions are at risk. [Guardian]

– Abba Museum Comes to Stockholm: A museum dedicated to the Swedish pop group Abba is set to open next year in Stockholm. Backed by former member Bjorn Ulvaeus, the museum will feature the band's glitzy stage costumes, instruments, and other mementos. Visitors will also have the opportunity to sing alongside life-size holograms of the group, which shouldn't be weird at all. [BBC] 

– Grayson Perry's Gingerbread House Angers Neighbors: Residents of the quiet Essex village of Wrabness are furious that Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry has been given the go-ahead to demolish a farmhouse and build an avant-garde, sculptural home with a gold roof and green and white patterned walls in its place. "It looks like a theme park and will spoil the area forever," said resident John Ager. [Telegraph]

– Gaddafi's Corpse Fascinates Artists: Great minds think alike? By coincidence, three major artists — Jenny Saville, Yan Pei-Ming, and Luca del Baldo — have painted the corpse of deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The latter's painting will go on show in Como, Italy in December. "An image of a dead dictator taken from the media is more powerful, and more shocking, than, say, Damien Hirst’s shark," del Baldo said. [TAN]

– Torrential Rain Comes to London Gallery: Art collective Random International has installed a downpour inside the Barbican in London. Visitors are invited to step inside the 100-square-meter "rain room," which pelts 1,000 liters of water per minute down from the ceiling. A sensor detects where viewers are standing to keep them dry. According to the artists, the installation is an exercise in trust. [Guardian, Daily Mail]