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Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? For over 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples.
They were a textbook case of opposites attract. Andre was famous, rich, white, and within the small coterie of the artworld, powerful. Mendieta was a Cuban refugee, a woman, working at the edge of the Avant Garde. Just months after their wedding, Andre called 911 saying they had a fight and Mendieta “went out the window” of their 34th floor apartment.
Andre was charged with murder and the art world split in two. Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed, and interrogates both the silence and the protest that have accompanied this story ever since.
Death of an Artist is a co-production between Pushkin Industries, Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment.
They were a textbook case of opposites attract. Andre was famous, rich, white, and within the small coterie of the artworld, powerful. Mendieta was a Cuban refugee, a woman, working at the edge of the Avant Garde. Just months after their wedding, Andre called 911 saying they had a fight and Mendieta “went out the window” of their 34th floor apartment.
Andre was charged with murder and the art world split in two. Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed, and interrogates both the silence and the protest that have accompanied this story ever since.
Death of an Artist is a co-production between Pushkin Industries, Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment.
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Even as a person who knows nothing about art or the art world, I enjoyed this podcast immensely. I enjoyed the story but I especially enjoyed the vulnerability of the host and her sharing of her feelings and emotions.
This was such an excellent, thought - provoking and flowed with such intentionality to remember this beautiful artist. It is so interesting that I have seen pictures of Mendieta's works and was moved by them, but never knew much about her. Thank you for this.
Interesting podcast, but a very disappointing ending. These women protested, they hashtagged him, they pitifully cried at his exhibit, yet no one confronted him face to face, no one did anything to force him to admit to it, it's all so passive-aggressive and pathetic. The last episode is a real bummer, makes me feel useless.
would you go to a Bill Cosby show, play a Rolf Harris song, or watch OJ do his thing? Then why go to this pricks exhibitions? You can't separate the person from their work as the above examples attest. If you do, in my humble point of view, you condone what he/ they have done.
I wouldn't say the art world's a closed world I'll say it's a world filled with spineless fake pathetic weak weak-minded individuals including the maker of this podcast who is as jellyfish of a spine as anyone I've ever heard
Excellent! Through true crime, I love visiting a new place and meeting a group of fascinating people I would normally not have the opportunity to meet in life. This hits the mark. The journalist podcaster introduces us to the highest achieving artists in Manhatten of a couple of decades ago when a murder took place in their social circle. One of the most intriguing creative articulate groups I've come across in True Crime. The journalists own background in modern art adds depth to our understanding of art and activism in a relaxed down to earth way. **Please follow up with another podcast series after this one!!**