Drawing by Antonin Artaud from Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits, MIT Press, 2019 (all images courtesy of The MIT Press) While his critical writings form the backbone of his reputation, most ...

When Maude Kirk moved into her home 37 years ago, it might not have seemed like an ideal living situation. The unit occupied the bank and document vault of a defunct canning factory. It had neither ...

Vincent Van Gogh, “Two Cut Sunflowers” (1887) (all images via Wikimedia unless otherwise noted) “There are no ghosts in the paintings of Van Gogh, no visions, no hallucinations. This is the torrid ...

Kantor, a Polish revolutionary of theatre, was also a versatile artist with an unceasing vision that he pursed without compromise. In order to acquaint you with this radical figure, we have decided to ...

These eleven pieces represent the first English translations of work from what Eshleman calls Artaud's ``second'' period (1946-48), the two years between his seven-year confinement in various mental ...

The exhibition Fata Morgana: Memories of the Invisible transforms the Baroque interiors of Palazzo Morando into a museum of visions—an atlas of unseen forces, apparitions, and ecstatic revelations.

Recently, Broadway and Off-Broadway have seen a preponderance of one-man-shows; some wildy imaginative, some not so much. This critic has grown just a bit tired of the formant because, far too ...

The story of Antonin Artaud’s visit to Ireland in 1937 has almost passed into myth. This may have pleased the Marseilles-born writer, poet, dramatist, artist, actor and director, one of the few people ...