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Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.

Tragedy was born, old-school anthropologists will tell you, when a dithyramb singer stepped out of the chorus and decided to act out the story instead.

A series of dithyrambs, called Cyclops I, II and III, from 1973, are some of the most powerful works in either exhibition, reminiscent of late Lovis Corinth, another unclassifiable German painter, who died in 1925.

The ensemble’s rich resonance, combined with the variety of pitches and shifting dynamics, evokes a kaleidoscopic dithyramb of rare power.

His is a poet’s prose, given to dithyramb, and it can’t be hurried along.