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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1970s represented a period of revival in Polish art which, among other aspects, manifested itself in the interest artists took in new media. A strong tendency to engage with the moving image was ...

Laurie Anderson is an artist whose work defies any easy description. She's a pioneer of the avant-garde, but as we learned, that doesn't begin to describe what she creates. Her work isn't sold in ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...