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Creed frontman Scott Stapp says he’s broke. The 41-year-old lead singer of the Grammy - win -ning band said in a rambling 15-minute - long video posted on his Facebook page Wednesday that he’s living in a hotel. “Right now, I’m living in a Holiday Inn, by the grace of God, because there’s been a couple of weeks where I had to live in my truck,” he said in the video. “I had no money, not even for gas or food.” Stapp said money has been stolen from his bank account and that royalty payments have not been paid to him. “Eight weeks ago, I began an audit of not only my record company, but my personal finances,” he said. “During the course of that audit, a lot of things were uncovered. A lot of money was stolen from me, or royalties not paid, and that’s when all hell began to break loose.” Stapp denied he’s taking drugs or alcohol and said he is “as sober as can be.” Creed last toured together in 2012. The band was one of the most successful rock acts of the 1990s, selling more than 40 million albums. Creed won the Grammy for best rock song for “With Arms Wide Open” in 2001.
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s native garden and studio will be reimagined at the New York Botanical Garden in the spring. The garden will use flowers and plants native to Mexico in the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life,” which will open May 16 and run through Nov. 1. The late artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City in more than 25 years will reflect the bright colors and textures of Kahlo’s portraits and still lifes. It will feature about a dozen original paintings and drawings highlighting her use of botanical imagery. Photos of Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, also will be shown. The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory will be transformed into Kahlo’s Blue House (Casa Azul) studio and garden outside Mexico City. It was decorated in traditional Mexican folkart objects, colonial-era art, native plants and religious ex-voto paintings that depict a tragedy or someone with a grave illness or injury. Among the features at the botanical garden will be a lava-rock path lined with flowers. There also will be a scale version of a pyramid at Casa Azul that was created to display pre-Columbian art collected by Rivera. It will be filled with traditional Mexican terra cotta pots.