Death of an Artist: Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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	Pushkin
0:06.0	Pushkin
0:11.5	High-lost hills listeners, Helen Molesworth here.
0:14.2	I'm popping into your feeds to tell you about a new show that I'm hosting, from Pushkin,
0:18.8	something else, and Sony Music Entertainment.
0:21.6	It's called Death of an Artist.
0:24.0	Carl Andre and Annaman Deheta were a textbook example of opposites attract.
0:29.2	Two artists, a white man known for his minimalist sculptures, and a Cuban woman who was breaking
0:34.2	barriers with her genre-bending performance art.
0:37.8	In the early hours of September 8, 1985, Anna fell from the 34th floor window of Carl's
0:44.2	New York apartment.
0:46.2	Carl was charged with murder, and the art world started to split in two.
0:50.9	There were those who couldn't believe such an artistic genius was capable of that kind
0:55.2	of violence, and there were those who blame him for Anna's death.
0:59.4	In Death of an Artist, I'll revisit Anna's untimely death, the trial that followed,
1:04.2	and both the protest and silence that have accompanied this story ever since.
1:09.4	Anna and Carl each pushed the boundaries of art and changed the trajectory of art history.
1:14.7	It could have been a love story, but instead, it's a tragedy.
1:19.2	Here's the preview.
1:20.2	I hope you enjoy it.
1:21.5	You can hear the full episode and more from Death of an Artist wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:31.4	We've arrived at the threshold of our terrible story.
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