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The Daily Crime

From Death of an Artist: Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Here’s a preview from a new podcast, Death of the Artist, that explores a tragedy in the art world. 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=tcc.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey listeners, this is Will Johnson with The Daily Crime.

0:02.9

We're doing things a bit different today and sharing with you a new true crime podcast we're really excited about.

0:08.0

It's called Death of an Artist.

0:09.7

In the early hours of September 8, 1985, up-and-coming artist Anna Mnietta fell from the 34th floor window of the New York City apartment she shared with her husband, the famous sculptor Carl Andre.

0:21.5

Carl was charged with murder and the art world split in two.

0:25.1

There were those who couldn't believe such an artistic genius was capable of that kind of violence,

0:30.0

and there were those who blamed him for Anna's death.

0:32.8

Carl and Anna were a textbook example of opposites attract,

0:36.0

a white man known for minimalist sculptures,

0:38.9

and a Cuban woman breaking barriers for performance art. It could have been a love story

0:43.6

between two fascinating and talented people, but instead it's a tragedy. In death of an artist,

0:49.5

curator Helen Molesworth revisits Anna's untimely death and asks, is it possible to separate the artist from the art?

0:57.1

In this preview, we hear a reenactment of the distressing 911 call from Carl,

1:01.0

the night of Anna's death, just nine short months after they wed.

1:04.9

You can follow Anna's story by searching for death of an artist wherever you get podcast.

1:09.7

We've arrived at the threshold of our

1:11.8

terrible story. Sunday, September 8th, 1985, a mere nine months after their wedding. There's a lot we don't

1:23.5

know about that evening. Here are a few things we know for certain. We know that Anna

1:29.9

never moved her things as she had planned to. We know that the unhappy couple spent the

1:36.6

evening at Carl's place, an apartment on the 34th floor of a relatively new luxury high-rise

1:44.7

in Greenwich Village.

1:47.4

That night, like New Yorkers everywhere,

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