Death of an Artist: Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre

We’re working on new episodes of Deep Cover for you, but in the meantime, here’s a preview from a new Pushkin podcast, Death of an Artist. 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=deep.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.