Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern: A triumphant tribute to a neglected visionary
Anny Shaw, The London Standard
August 2026
The Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta was 36 when she died on September 8, 1985. She had, in the words of her husband, the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, “somehow gone out the window” of their 34th-floor Manhattan apartment. Andre was charged with her murder but later acquitted due to insufficient evidence to prove he had pushed her during a drunken row. Deliberately, and rightly, Mendieta’s grievous end is not referenced at all in her triumphant exhibition at Tate Modern — the artist’s largest in the UK. There is just one mention of Andre: in an illustrated book of lithographs made by both artists, titled Pietre Foglie. […]