Hey everyone. I'm doing things a little differently today. I wanted to share with you a real treat.

It's a preview of a new art-related true crime podcast.

It's called Death of an Artist.

Now, since you're listening to the lonely palette, you're undoubtedly plugged into the art scene,

or at least you are now. So you might have heard of the famous sculptor, Carl Andre, and

his up-and-coming artist wife, Anna Mendietta, whom we touched on briefly in episode 40. He was known for his minimalist floor sculptures

and she broke boundaries with her genre-bending body-centric performance art.

What could have been just a romance between two fascinating and talented people

ends in a 911 call and a tragic death that split the art rolled in two.

Host and curator Helen Molesworth revisits Anna's untimely death, taking a closer look at how

she might have fallen out of the window of Carl's 34th floor New York apartment, the trial that followed, and both the protest and

silence that has accompanied this story since 1985. In the preview you're about

to hear Helen introduces us to Anna's earliest work and the shocking topics

that would come to inspire her powerful art, blood, violence, and justice.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. You can hear the full episode and more about

Anamandieta's story on Death of an Artist from Pushkin Industries available wherever

you listen to podcasts. It's May 1973, Iowa City.

There's a damp chill in the air.

We are on a sort of shabby block in front of a brick apartment building with a white door in need of a paint job and a storefront

window with its blinds drawn shut.

The sidewalk just in front of the door is covered in blood and it looks like the blood might be seeping out from under the door jam.

It's a busy weekday and as pedestrians past the puddle of blood they notice it and

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