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The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940). The painting will be on display through March 31, 2015.

Since 1990 the painting has been featured in exhibitions in more than 25 museums in the United States and in countries such as Australia, Canada, France, Spain and Italy.

The painting was most recently on view at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. The work travels next to The New York Botanical Garden for the exhibition “Frida Kahlo’s Garden,” running from May 16 to Nov. 1, 2015, in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library’s Rondina and LoFaro Gallery.

The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA has received a major gift of $1 million from the late G. Gordon Osborne and his wife, Marjorie, who passed away last year. Gordon Osborne was a longtime supporter of the institution and played a pivotal role in establishing its research library. Prior to the $1 million bequest, which will go towards the museum’s endowment fund, the Osbornes had donated an additional $1.5 million to the institution.

The American Textile History Museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and aims to tell America’s story through the art, history and science of textiles. The museum’s vast collection includes tools, spinning wheels, hand looms, early production machines, textile prints, fabric samples, hooked rugs, handwoven linens, costumes and textile-related decorative arts objects.