Ignacy Witkiewicz News Today

Niall Harrison reviews three early-20th-century science fiction novels published as part of the MIT Press’s Radium Age series....

Mad kings and shadow puppets feature in the experimental-theatre pieces “My Onliness” and “This and That.”

An exhibition devoted to the work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, one of the most outstanding European artists of the 20th century, opens today in Warsaw’s National Museum.

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Self-Portrait, 1938 In pursuit of Pure Form, the Polish artist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz known as “Witkacy” would consume peyote, cocaine, and other intoxicants before creating pastel portraits. Perhaps it is the main subject of the self-portrait that captures

He had also gone through a bad divorce, become estranged from his only daughter and been diagnosed with skin cancer, but he insisted that all of that, however painful, was secondary to the sudden realization that it was mathematics—not nuclear weapons, computers, biological warfare or our climate Armageddon—which was changing our world to the point […]

The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association are pleased to present the 2021 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival as it returns to in-person format.