Episode 1: The Haunting
Death of an Artist
The Bloody Puddle in Iowa City, Iowa
In 1973, Anna Mendieta was a first-year MFA student at the University of Iowa. She had roped Rakhlin into helping her make a new piece that would come to seem tragically prophetic in the wake of her death. "She basically staged what looked like the remnants of, you know, physical violence with what looked like blood in the doorway of a building and I thought it was extremely powerful," she says.
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