Installation shot of Galerie Lelong's Ana Mendieta retrospective (image from galerielelong.com) We’re approaching a pivotal point in the progress of performance art in which the once rogue medium is ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 1-Sept. 19, 2004, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Oct. 14 ...

Ana Tereza Fernández, “Erasure 1 (performance documentation) (detail)” (2016), oil on canvas, 72 x 98 inches (courtesy the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco) Because of the mysterious ...

Ana Mendieta’s art was sometimes violent, often unapologetically feminist and usually raw. She effortlessly incorporated unusual natural materials like blood, dirt, water and fire, and displayed her ...

The life of Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta is headed to the screen. Currently in development at Amazon MGM Studios is a limited series set to explore Mendieta’s short yet remarkable career and the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This three-minute film captures a ...

Declining sales and a cyberattack ignite new worries at spring art auctions. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985.

She effortlessly incorporated unusual natural materials like blood, dirt, water and fire, and displayed her work through photography, film and live performances. “Nothing that she did ever surprised ...