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Spectres of Artaud
As with the Reina Sofia’s Roussel survey, ‘Spectres of Artaud. Language and the Arts around 1952’ acknowledges a figure whose influence ranged far beyond the literary, reaching into performance, music, visual arts and cinema.
Spectres of Artaud
As with the Reina Sofia’s Roussel survey, ‘Spectres of Artaud. Language and the Arts around 1952’ acknowledges a figure whose influence ranged far beyond the literary, reaching into performance, music, visual arts and cinema.
Ludwig at the movies
Ludwig II is back on screen at the end of this year in a new German production, a hundred years since his first film appearance, more or less. Here are ten milestones of the Bavarian king’s cinematic century.
Ludwig at the movies
Ludwig II is back on screen at the end of this year in a new German production, a hundred years since his first film appearance, more or less. Here are ten milestones of the Bavarian king’s cinematic century.
Places: Phoenix Park
Antonin Artaud’s harrowing writing forms a dark, precarious monument teetering at, and sometimes over, the edge of sanity. Like Nietzsche, his conception of what art could and should do for society and the individual started where most artists’ ended.
Places: Phoenix Park
Antonin Artaud’s harrowing writing forms a dark, precarious monument teetering at, and sometimes over, the edge of sanity. Like Nietzsche, his conception of what art could and should do for society and the individual started where most artists’ ended.
The wrath of God
If you were asked to identify the psychological weak link of a production you would probably go with the guy who is screaming himself hoarse for a half-hour stretch because the catering had fallen short of his standards.
The wrath of God
If you were asked to identify the psychological weak link of a production you would probably go with the guy who is screaming himself hoarse for a half-hour stretch because the catering had fallen short of his standards.
The white caliph
Gerard MacBryan was described as a “complete crook”, a “quisling”, an “undesirable character”, “a kind of evil genius”. He was the heir to an asylum and his tale embraces intrigue, treachery and a descent into Heart of Darkness-style tropical insanity.
The white caliph
Gerard MacBryan was described as a “complete crook”, a “quisling”, an “undesirable character”, “a kind of evil genius”. He was the heir to an asylum and his tale embraces intrigue, treachery and a descent into Heart of Darkness-style tropical insanity.
Rex Luna
Both Ludwig and Sissi took the abstractions of Romanticism and not only made them reality but practised them at the level of an extreme sport. In so doing they inspired the Decadent writers who furthered the Romantics’ cult of self.
Rex Luna
Both Ludwig and Sissi took the abstractions of Romanticism and not only made them reality but practised them at the level of an extreme sport. In so doing they inspired the Decadent writers who furthered the Romantics’ cult of self.
After Hours
The Nancy Cunard who journeyed from Nice to the outskirts of Paris in early March, 1965 – drunk, drug-addled, half-mad, paranoid, crippled, emaciated – was a long way from the Nancy Cunard of popular memory, the poet, progressive publisher, proponent
After Hours
The Nancy Cunard who journeyed from Nice to the outskirts of Paris in early March, 1965 – drunk, drug-addled, half-mad, paranoid, crippled, emaciated – was a long way from the Nancy Cunard of popular memory, the poet, progressive publisher, proponent
Borderline madness
Despite their messy romantic entanglement, the trio formed a progressive creative unit which they dubbed The Pool Group. In 1930 they made the film Borderline, which featured singer Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda as well as H.D. and Bryher.
Borderline madness
Despite their messy romantic entanglement, the trio formed a progressive creative unit which they dubbed The Pool Group. In 1930 they made the film Borderline, which featured singer Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda as well as H.D. and Bryher.
¡La Lupe!
With her on-stage histrionics and off-stage drama, La Lupe was a suffering, Garland-esque prima donna, name-checked in Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp. While touring with Tito Puente, La Lupe proved so erratic that she was replaced with two drag queens.
¡La Lupe!
With her on-stage histrionics and off-stage drama, La Lupe was a suffering, Garland-esque prima donna, name-checked in Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp. While touring with Tito Puente, La Lupe proved so erratic that she was replaced with two drag queens.
Dada Baroness
There is ample evidence to suggest that the “Dada Baroness”, with her compulsion to invest mass-produced objects with totemic significance, exerted a strong influence on Duchamp’s readymades and thus on the entire history of 20th century art.
Dada Baroness
There is ample evidence to suggest that the “Dada Baroness”, with her compulsion to invest mass-produced objects with totemic significance, exerted a strong influence on Duchamp’s readymades and thus on the entire history of 20th century art.
Thyme the healer
What constitutes a bad day for you? Chances are it doesn’t involve persecution by legions of demonic goblins or opening the letterbox to find a letter from Lucifer, threatening to send even more of his hellish hordes. Such were the daily travails of the delightfully named Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym.
Thyme the healer
What constitutes a bad day for you? Chances are it doesn’t involve persecution by legions of demonic goblins or opening the letterbox to find a letter from Lucifer, threatening to send even more of his hellish hordes. Such were the daily travails of the delightfully named Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym.
Strange Flowers 