Allora & Calzadilla’s “Entelechy,” curated by Philippe Vergne and Inês Grosso, is on view through November 12, 2023, at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, located at Rua D. João de Castro, 210, 4150–417 Porto, Portugal. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Description: ENTELECHY Jennifer Allora (1974, USA) and…
HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW: In 1979, Ana Mendieta, a young, up-and-coming artist fresh off a solo show at the feminist co-op A.I.R. Gallery, met the older, more famous Carl Andre, a so-called founding father of Minimalism. The artists embarked on a romantic and, by several accounts, tempestuous relationship. In 1985, Mendieta died after falling from the window of Andre’s thirty-fourth-floor apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village. He was tried, and acquitted, for her murder. Now eighty-seven, Andre still living, somewhat astoundingly, in that same apartment has carried on with his career, exhibiting