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 ...

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 ...

At The Tank in New York City, director Ioli Andreadi returns with ANTONIN ARTAUD – 130th ANNIVERSARY, a theatrical tribute to the revolutionary French artist Antonin Artaud. The production features ...

Popular wisdom, which is not invariably wrong, cherishes the notion of the artist as mad genius. In point of fact, there have been relatively few mad geniuses in the arts, one or the other component ...

In our many meetings, the director’s conversation was as invigorating as the way he led audiences through the night in his staging of The Mahabharata The director draws inspiration from Artaud to muse ...

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 ...

On May 31st, Patti Smith will appear on Peyote Dance, an album with the experimental musicians of the Soundwalk Collective. The New York-based group are known for making new art out of “found sounds” ...

Modern art was partially born in a climate of dissent as artists, from bohemia to the Dada movement, broke with the rules of polite society.