The Pervasive Echo

Ruth Sacks

• Castle Clinton, Battery Park
• Monday, November 2 5:30pm

“The Pervasive Echo” is a re-examination of the 19th century phenomenon that was Jenny Lind, a singer also known as “the Swedish Nightingale,” in which a fragment of Lind’s inaugural concert in America will be restaged under unusual circumstances at the same site where she gave this historic concert 159 years ago.

Ruth Sacks is a South African artist who has taken part in a variety of exhibitions, including .ZA giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena (2008), the 52nd Venice Biennale in the African Pavilion (2007), and the 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries (2006). Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include “Open Studio” at Galerie Cortex Athletico in Bordeaux, France (2007) and “Liquid History” at Extraspazzio (January 2010). She currently resides in Brussels, Belgium, where she is part of the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) studio program.

Presented by the Museum for African art and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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