Arts & Music

Hermann Nitsch in America

 
The Slought Foundation has recently published “Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America,” a book, which examines the work of the Austrian performance artist from American perspective.
To launch the publication, the editor Aaron Levy interviewed Hermann Nitsch at Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.
Hermann Nitsch (born 1938) is an Austrian performance artist and a forerunner of […]

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