Mendieta claimed for herself the tradition of the neolithic. This was a gesture towards a time when all current critical pigeon holes appear redundant. And if a single project makes a case for ...

Installation shot of Galerie Lelong's Ana Mendieta retrospective (image from galerielelong.com) We’re approaching a pivotal point in the progress of performance art in which the once rogue medium is ...

“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant, from plant to galaxy. My works are the ...

"¿Dónde está Ana Mendieta? Where is Ana Mendieta?" This is the question—and rallying cry—that has animated art-world feminists ever since Havana-born artist Ana Mendieta fell to her death from the ...

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RIT’s City Art Space is celebrating the opening of a new exhibition, “Elemental,” by hosting two events on Wednesday, Nov. 2, and Thursday, Nov. 3. The exhibition is a rare showing of films by the ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 1-Sept. 19, 2004, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Oct. 14 ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. He called 911 after it happened. “My wife is an artist and I am an artist ...

Ana Mendieta’s art was sometimes violent, often unapologetically feminist and usually raw. She effortlessly incorporated unusual natural materials like blood, dirt, water and fire, and displayed her ...

Ana Mendieta and Judith Wilson. Interview with Ana Mendieta conducted by Judith Wilson for "Ana Mendieta Plants Her Garden," Village Voice, 1980 May 27. Judith Wilson papers, 1966-2010. Archives of ...

Declining sales and a cyberattack ignite new worries at spring art auctions. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985.