The influential French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, active in the early 20th century, had Polish roots through his mother, a Polish lady of noble birth by the name of Angelika Kostrowicka. In the 1950s ...

Marie Laurencin, “Apollinaire et ses amis” or “Une réunion à la campagne” (1909), oil on canvas, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne (© Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.

CHELSEA — “There’s always a choice,” says mountain climber Joe Simpson. That statement becomes a constant refrain in “Touching the Void,” an imaginative and visceral retelling of one man’s near-death ...

There’s something fascinating about watching art unfold on city streets. Jousts, murders, and a love story cut short were carried out on the sidewalks and green spaces of Chelsea Square in front of ...

“Brilliant Adventures” is both more and less than meets the eye. It appears at first to be simply a social-realist drama set in a decaying urban center in the north of England. Then a man enters the ...

CHELSEA — Perfection is not attainable in life. But might it be attainable in food? Seven stressed-out public defenders are seemingly intent on exploring that question in Sarah Einspanier’s witty and ...

On The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology edited, translated and with an introduction by L. C. Breunig, and Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated and with an introduction by Donald Revell. The ...

Artist: One clear autumn day in 1912, Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was sitting on a bench in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence and looking at the 19th-century statue of Dante that broods over the ...

It’s the plight of public defenders: How do seven beleaguered lawyers offset the burden of their family defense caseloads? And a fear that the judicial system won’t deliver justice? And the burnout ...