FILE -Action artist Hermann Nitsch sits in front of the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany, July 23, 2021. Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist who was known among other things for “Action" ...

Though portraiture is one of the oldest and most traditional art genres, it has consistently proven a potent starting point for artistic experimentation. At Paris gallery Hélène Bailly, the exhibition ...

This article was submitted on behalf of Roswell Rudd. Back in the 1960's, avant-garde was one of the terms used to categorize the new music. Because I was coming from Dixieland Jazz into this new ...

In her day job, the ‘first lady of Croatian avant garde’ sliced up cadavers at Zagreb’s anatomical institute. In her studio, she used the same medical instruments to make art that surprises to this da ...

Enrico Castellani, an Italian artist who was a prominent member of Europe’s postwar avant-garde, died Dec. 1 at his home in Celleno, Italy, near Rome. He was 87. Enrico Castellani, an Italian artist ...

BERLINBERLIN — Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83. Nitsch’s wife, Rita Nitsch, told the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian ...