A show dedicated to the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, which opened last month at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (until 24 July), has hit the headlines after supporters of Ana Mendieta—Andre’s wife, who fell to her death in 1985—protested at the launch against her “erasure from the art canon”, according to the website Hyperallergic. (Andre was acquitted of Mendieta’s murder in 1988.) Devotees of the late Cuban-American performance artist are determined to preserve her legacy, and Mary Anna Pomonis, the co-founder of the Association of Hysteric Curators, has written an open letter to the museum, calling for a Mendieta show. “Under the vision of the curator Alma Ruiz, MoCA secured the entire Mendieta series Silueta Works in Mexico… and Ruiz lobbied the institution to bring a retrospective to Los Angeles on three occasions. Her attempts were thwarted and instead the Carl Andre show has been produced,” the letter says. A spokeswoman for the museum declined to comment.
