Études with a camera – Dóra Maurer’s films and photoworks

What can one do with a cobblestone? This was a question asked and answered by Dóra Maurer in 1971. … More

‘Consumer Art’ and Other Commodity Aesthetics in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule

This essay was written for a book which was published by Centrum Sztuki Nowoczesnej in Warsaw in January 2017. … More

In 1986 Tamás Király arranged for his latest collection to be photographed on the steps of the Műcsarnok, the kunsthalle … More

In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on … More

This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More

In September, Daniel Muzyczuk and I curated a show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz … More

These installation shots in Poster Museum at Wilanów were provided by Podpunkt, the excellent studio which designed the show and the … More

In October 1993, Charles Jencks, the leading advocate of architectural postmodernism, was guest of honour at an international conference and … More

Extracts from a longer essay exploring the future of the poster which will be published in Warsaw in June 2016 … More

This is a draft version of a short essay which will appear in a book accompanying ‘The Sixties: A Worldwide … More