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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mendieta claimed for herself the tradition of the neolithic. This was a gesture towards a time when all current critical pigeon holes appear redundant. And if a single project makes a case for ...

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.