Image: Ana Mendieta, still from Butterfly, Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent, 1975. The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie LeLong & Co.

I see the latter Mendieta exhibition, Documentation and Artwork, 1972 – 1985, as the far more succesful. Posted in Art ...

Inside, I found a video art piece by Ana Mendieta. At its most basic level, the work was innovative and stunning. At its most complex, I found her “earth-body” video performance to be a completely ...

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 ...

Ana Maria Mendieta was born into a middle-class family in Havana on Nov. 18, 1948. Her father, Ignacio, was a prominent political figure who ran afoul of Fidel Castro’s government; her mother ...

Ana Mendieta was a Cuban American artist who died in 1985. Her husband Carl Andre was charged then acquitted for her murder. Now the podcast Death of an Artist with host Helen Molesworth finds out ...

Last November, Mendieta's work set a new auction record at Christie's, where an untitled 1985 wood sculpture sold for $756,000, marking the third record for her art set in 12 months.

It traces Mendieta’s rise in the New York art scene, and details how her life was cut short when she fell out of the window of her husband Carl Andre’s 34th-floor apartment in 1985.

Ana Mendieta in The Women Who Changed Art Forever: Feminist Art – The Graphic Novel by Valentina Grande and illustrated by Eva Rossetti. Courtesy of Laurence King Publishing.

The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985. Her family members have been fighting for control of her legacy ever since.