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Associate editor, culture, Times and Sunday Times. Previously: Guardian Weekend, Guardian arts, New Statesman long reads. @melissadenes.bsky.social
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‘I thought of her as a volcano’: the triumphant art and very troubling death of Ana Mendieta

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By Melissa Denes Verified
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In the summer of 1985, Ana Mendieta was playing with gunpowder and a chainsaw. Just 5ft tall, the Cuban American artist worked outside her studio in Rome, trying to figure out the scale of a new commission for MacArthur Park, Los Angeles. Her idea was to cut up trees and burn the gunpowder directly into them, creating a totem "grove" inspired by her recent trips to neolithic sites.
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Kultur : Wie das Belarus Free Theatre den totalitären Terror auf der Venedig-Biennale zeigen will

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By Melissa Denes Verified
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Sie wurden inhaftiert, gefoltert und ausspioniert.
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‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale

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By Melissa Denes Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
In a studio down a residential road in west Warsaw, a group of former political prisoners are cutting golden stems of wheat to 90cm lengths and stacking them, ready to be shipped to the Venice Biennale. A giant ball made of books banned in the neighbouring country of Belarus – Harry Potter, Nobel prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an illustrated history of kink – rests on the claw of a bulldozer.
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