Hermann Nitsch, “135.Action part 2” at the Havana Biennial (photo © Fondazione Morra, courtesy Museum of Old and New Art) “We are opposed to this event, which ...

Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch is again at the center of controversy—this time in Tasmania. 150.Action, a three-hour performance by Nitsch that will use 500 liters of blood and a slaughtered bull, has ...

Hermann Nitsch pictured in front of one of his works at a 2006 retrospective. Gero Breloer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images The performance art of Hermann Nitsch, a man ...

Half a century after the initial transgressions of Viennese Actionism, Hermann Nitsch is still able to shock audiences with the mere thought of his blood drenched, carcass-filled art actions. Italian ...