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 ...

A Tate Modern survey of the artist’s lifetime of work sidesteps chronology to focus on her engagement with nature. But does that give us the whole picture? By Emily LaBarge Reviewing from London How ...

My art comes out of rage and displacement,” Ana Mendieta once said. “Although the image may not be a very rageful image, I think all art comes out of sublimated rage.” As far as mission statements go, ...

Before Ana Mendieta, the Cuban American artist, became a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, in 1983, she’d never had a studio of her own. Five years earlier, as an ambitious twenty-nine-year-old, ...