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 ...

This major exhibition provides a survey of the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta's career from 1972 until her untimely death in New York in 1985. Mendieta (1948 - 1985) is celebrated for using her body ...

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 ...

It is now impossible to speak of Ana Mendieta’s pioneering, ritualized, land-body performance art without referring to the still unsettling manner of her untimely death—fallen, pushed, or thrown from ...

Ana Mendieta. She Got Love, is a large-scale European retrospective devoted to the Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). The exhibition will open on January 30 in the evocative spaces ...

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 ...

There is much to be intrigued about with Tuesday's announcement by the Nasher Sculpture Center. The Nasher has purchased a group of works "encompassing sculpture, photography and video" by the late ...

Ana Mendieta was a performance artist and a sculptor, a photographer and a painter. She was a theorist and a feminist who used her body to connect with the universe. She was a 12-year-old girl who was ...

BEACON, NY — Carl Andre’s 50-year, career-spanning retrospective at Dia:Beacon is coming down this weekend. If you think that Modernism is god, that its spawn, Minimalism, is the lord, and that Andre ...

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 ...