London exhibition explores how ancient sites informed the work of the late Cuban American artist, who was best known for her ...

Before Ana Mendieta, the Cuban American artist, became a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, in 1983, she’d never had a ...

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 ...

Although there was an exhibition of her work at London’s Hayward Gallery in 2013, Britain’s art-loving public may be unfamiliar with Ana Mendieta, the Cuban artist who died in 1985 at the age of 36 ...

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 ...

Ana Mendieta, Tate Modern review: Strange, singular and strikingly contemporary - 5/5 Bursting with feathers, flowers, blood ...

September 22, 2016 — 2 min read Ana Tereza Fernández, “Erasure 1 (performance documentation) (detail)” (2016), oil on canvas, 72 x 98 inches (courtesy the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mystery of how Ana Mendieta fell 34 floors from the window of her New York apartment has echoes in the work she left behind, writes Sean O'Hagan ...