Antonin Artaud

Terry Allen: Ghost Ship Rodez - The Momo Chronicles | Allen pursues a fictional investigation of what may have happened in the mind of French artist, playwright and actor Antonin Artaud during a 17-day journey restrained in the dark hold of the freighter Washington in 1937, and later, in various mental institutions.

Bill Bush: When Art = AIDS Awareness: This Artweek.LA (March 7-13) Bill Bush 2011

Terry Allen: Ghost Ship Rodez - The Momo Chronicles | Allen pursues a fictional investigation of what may have happened in the mind of French artist, playwright and actor Antonin Artaud during a 17-day journey restrained in the dark hold of the freighter Washington in 1937, and later, in various mental institutions.

Bill Bush: When Art = AIDS Awareness: This Artweek.LA (March 7-13) Bill Bush 2011

Ada Whitney Inspired by the drawings of Antonin Artaud, video animation by Ada Whitney, above, is part of John Zorn's 'La machine l'être.'

An Opera Drawn From Art Steve Dollar 2011

Spero recycled the anguished outpourings by the poet Antonin Artaud: terrified recollections of electric shock therapy, crazed railings against God and the universe, delirious streams of obscene "fecal poetry".

Nancy Spero: no pity 2011

Antonin Artaud, Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti and Cioran himself were among the writers about whom Sontag wrote most enthusiastically.

A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011

And, likewise, for the drawings that inspired the opera, made by French literary and theatrical figure Antonin Artaud shortly before his 1948 death in a Paris psychiatric clinic.

An Opera Drawn From Art Steve Dollar 2011

Within a year, Miró's tiny studio at rue Blomet received regular visits from his new friends: the poet Paul Éluard, the playwright Antonin Artaud and the artist Tristan Tzara.

Joan Miró: A life in paintings 2011

Nierka, choreographed by the Nederlands Dans Theatre-based Fernando Hernando Magadan, creates drama out of the chemistry between its constituent elements – dance, lighting and music – and in so doing pays homage to Wassily Kandinsky's theory of synaesthesia and the theatrical vision of Antonin Artaud and Edward Gordon Craig.

This week's new theatre and dance 2012

Michael Counts: The three things that John gave me were: The drawings of Antonin Artaud, magic and alchemy.

An Opera Drawn From Art Steve Dollar 2011

And animations of the cryptic Antonin Artaud drawings that inspired the opera are projected on big cartoon speech bubbles, one of which erupts in flames at the end.

Slipping Over the Edge at City Opera Heidi Waleson 2011