On View at the Tate Modern

Tate Modern in London is attempting to reposition the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta. But its spiritual, nature-bound reading of her work snags in too many places

Ana Mendieta once said that one day she would be more famous than Frida Kahlo. Now the U.S. artist, born in Cuba in 1948, is sharing a season at London’s Tate Modern with Kahlo and Tracey Emin.

Rather than stage a classic retrospective, Tate Modern curators Valentine Umansky and Michael Wellen have set out to reposition Mendieta. They ask how the reception of her work…