tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post3565251997355751652..comments2024-03-23T10:31:52.756-04:00Comments on Rick On Theater: “As It Is in 'Heaven'”Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-84301334536658905452024-01-27T01:27:06.123-05:002024-01-27T01:27:06.123-05:00Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, husband of eight m...Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, husband of eight months of performance and environmental artist Ana Mendieta, the model for Aria in Karen Malpede's 'Blue Heaven'/'Going to Iraq' (discussed above), died at 88 in a hospice in Manhattan on 24 January 2024.<br /><br />Andre was acquitted of second-degree murder in 1988 in a highly publicized non-jury trial for the 1985 death of Mendieta, who fell, jumped, or was pushed from the East Village apartment the two artists shared. <br /><br />By the 1970s, Andre's sculptures "free of human association" established him as a ground-breaking formalist and minimalist. Then the persistent questions about Mendieta's death overshadowed his career.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.com