Honzík – how high the sky?

This is an extract of a talk which I will present at the ‘Afterlives of Constructivism‘ conference at Princeton University … More

Walking With Hansen

In lieu of the full text, here is a link to a talk on Oskar Hansen’s ideas about the mobile … More

Pop Cinema in Eastern Europe – lecture at Tate

This lecture was given at Tate Modern in London on 15 March 2013 as part of the Global Pop conference.

Tomaszewski’s ‘Historia’ (occasional notes on posters)

In Eastern Europe before 1989, the state held a near-monopoly on all forms of public expression. Censors wielding red pencils … More

Zamecznik’s Silent Star (occasional notes on posters)

In many science fiction films of the Cold War period the cosmos is represented as an extra-terrestrial space in which … More

Modernizacje 1918-1939. Czas przyszły dokonany – review

This review was commissioned by the European Architectural History Network in 2010. ♦ Like a number of other exhibitions on … More

The Photographer in the Hall of Mirrors

This is an extract of an long essay on the work of photographer Nicolas Grospierre. It will appear in a … More

Paper Architecture: The Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin

 This essay appeared in the catalogue for the Postmodernism. Style and Subversion 1970-90 Exhibition at the V&A Museum in London … More

Seeing Japan, Imagining Poland: Polish Art and the Russo-Japanese War

This piece was first published in 2008 ♦ On first inspection it seems unlikely that the interests of Polish artists … More

The Dark Side of the Modern Home

This is an extract of an essay published in Sparke, Massey, Keeble and Martin, eds., Designing the Modern Interior (Berg, 2009) … More