Viewers may have seen similar Nitsch installations before, but it is important to re-experience his work, much of which has been long misunderstood by an art world dominated by political theory and formalism.
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
Hermann Nitsch’s “Leviticus” Now on View at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art’s installation features Hermann Nitsch’s large scale book “Leviticus” opened to the segment describing the High Priest’s sacrificial service.
Seven Museums Each Tackle a Deadly Sin
The Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance (FWMA), a recently formed consortium of museums located just north of New York City, chose to inaugurate its new partnership with simultaneous exhibitions designed to address a widely known if archaic catalogue of human foibles known as the Seven Deadly Sins.
Your Weekly Art Rx: Museum Fever!
Get out the syringe, it’s time for your shot of art for the week. We promise it won’t be painful. This week the medicine comes in the form of museum exhibitions both big and small, including Sherrie Levine’s retrospective at the Whitney, the much anticipated opening of the Met’s Islamic wing, and round-up of seminal art from the 1980s in Hudson Valley that’s worth the trip to upstate New York. We’re also prescribing two events that mix visual art and music, a combo that is sure to cure any illness.