Introducing Death of an Artist: The Story of Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre
Death of an Artist
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Coming Sept 23: 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 and the trial that followed, and interrogates both the silence and the protest that have accompanied this story ever since.
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| 0:00.0 | On a Monday morning in May 1992 a 20-year-old woman is murdered in her home. |
| 0:07.0 | Her husband of just nine days comes home from work and finds his high school sweetheart stabbed to death. |
| 0:13.7 | Her name is Jennifer Judd. |
| 0:16.3 | Who killed Jennifer Judd? |
| 0:18.1 | In this new series, we'll attempt to solve a 32-year-old cold case. Listen to who killed Jennifer Judd on Apple. the I heart Anamandietta and Carl Andre were a textbook example of opposites attract. |
| 0:38.0 | Two artists, a white man from New England who became famous in the 60s for his minimalist sculptures, |
| 0:45.0 | bricks, wood or metal placed directly on the floor, |
| 0:48.0 | and a Cuban woman who had been forced from her homeland and discovered avant-garde art in the middle of Iowa in the 1970s. |
| 0:56.5 | She basically staged what looked like blood in the doorway of a building. |
| 1:02.1 | It was extremely powerful. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Helen Molesworth, an art historian, |
| 1:07.0 | and I want to tell you the story of these two people, |
| 1:10.0 | as artists and as lovers. |
| 1:12.0 | They each push the boundaries of art and change the |
| 1:15.7 | trajectory of art history. It could have been a love story, but instead it's a tragedy. |
| 1:22.1 | Did she ever sound like she was a But instead it's a tragedy. |
| 1:25.6 | Did she ever sound like she was afraid of him? Yes, that night he said, yeah, he's gonna blow up if I have this conversation with him. |
| 1:31.2 | In the early hours of September 8th 1985, Anna fell from the 34th floor |
| 1:36.5 | window of Carl's New York apartment. Carl was |
| 1:45.0 | a charge with murder and the art world started to split into. There were those who couldn't believe such an artistic genius was capable of that kind of violence. |
| 1:51.0 | How could Carl who represent the purity of this art? of that |
| 1:55.0 | Carl who represent the purity of this art, how could he have done such an act like that? |
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