Death of an Artist: Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We'll be dropping a trailer for the new brand new season of Bad Women next week. But in the meantime, here’s a preview from Death of an Artist, a new podcast from Pushkin Industries.

For more than 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples: Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendieta’s death, taking a closer look at how she might have fallen out of the window of Carl’s 34th floor New York apartment, and the following trial which has divided the art world since 1985.

Hear more from Death of an Artist at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/artist?sid=women.

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0:00.0	A 34-year-old man was found bleeding to death on the street.
0:03.6	This man was Anthony Virgilio, Tony, to his friends.
0:07.3	Calvin Jones would spend 30 years in prison for Tony's murder.
0:11.0	And for 30 years, Calvin Jones would call my house and speak to my father.
0:15.7	What did my dad have to say to a convicted murderer?
0:19.2	When my dad died, he left behind a question.
0:22.2	Was he responsible for killing Tony Virgilio from Sonoro and Tenorfoot TV, the estate?
0:28.0	Listen to the estate wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.8	Pushkin.
0:41.2	Hey, bad women, listeners.
0:42.6	Halley here.
0:43.8	We're working hard on the new season of bad women coming October 11th.
0:48.3	But in the meantime, I wanted to share a new true crime podcast from Pushkin.
0:53.2	I think you're going to love it.
0:54.8	It's called Death of an Artist.
0:58.0	Anna Mendietta was on her way to the top of the art world
1:02.2	when she fell 34 stories to her death on September 8th, 1985.
1:09.0	She was in the prime of her life and gaming recognition for her
1:12.1	genre-bending performance art while living with her husband,
1:15.7	the famous sculptor Carl Andre.
1:18.5	From the outside, it looked like a romance for the ages between two
1:22.1	incredibly talented and fascinating people.
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