This exhibition was mounted at the Estonian Museum of Architecture, in spring 2023. Curated by Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets, … More
Author: David Crowley
Unknown Pleasures: Tyszkiewicz’s Films
This essay on Teresa Tyszkiewicz’s extraordinary films is due for publication in a book edited by Zofia Machnicka in 2023. … More
Super America: Polish Artists and Consumer Lifestyle
This is a link to a video of a lecture given in Poznan in spring 2023 at a excellent symposium … More
Wanda Czełkowska
In early 2023, I was invited to write a short analysis of Wanda Czełkowska’s ‘Black Frieze’ for the retrospective exhibition … More
A Widening Gyre: Paul Neagu and British Art in the 1970s
This is an extract from a much longer essay on the reception of Romanian artist Paul Neagu in the UK, … More
Henryk Stażewski. Late Style
I curated this show for the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź in spring-summer 2023 with the close and very expert support … More
The Publicity of the Private: Performance in Public in Eastern Europe in the 1970s
This is a short essay that will be published in Polish later this year. It sketches ideas and themes that … More
1980 in Parallax: Architects and Acts of Solidarity
This is a link to a new article that explores the ways in which the rise of the Solidarity independent … More
To the Left of Power? Radical Culture in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s
With Ieva Astahovska, Mari Laanements, I organised an online workshop over two days in autumn 2021 on the impact of … More
Hands, Ears and Eyes. Humanism in Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s
In autumn 2020, I gave an online talk on humanism in graphic design in the 1950s and 1960s focusing on … More
