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 ...

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 ...

ONE OF THE MAIN purposes of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's "Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985" is, according to show organizer Olga Viso, to make the late ...

Since Ana Mendieta’s untimely death in 1985, her imprint on the landscape of art has only become more pronounced, with interest in her life growing alongside it. “Ana Mendieta: Experimental and ...

Her shocking performances and stunning images made Mendieta the talk of the art world in the 1970s and 80s. Then she fell from a New York apartment block in 1985 – and her husband was charged with ...

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 ...

The Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta was 36 when she died on September 8, 1985. She had, in the words of her husband, the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, “somehow gone out the window” of their ...

At the conclusion of "Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972.-1985" was a small 1981 drawing in acrylic, Silueta de entranas (La voladora) (Silhouette of Entrails [The Flyer]). At ...

Ana Mendieta, documentation of an untitled performance with flowers, ca. 1973 (Intermedia Studio, University of Iowa; detail). 35 mm black-and-white photo negative. “That was hard,” admits Olga Viso ...