The Aura of the Avant-garde

Agnieszka Pindera at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź is leading a research project into Échange entre artistes 1931–1982, Pologne-USA, a … 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

This essay was published in the 2021 book accompanying the ZDZISŁAW JURKIEWICZ. OCCURRENCES exhibition at the Muzeum Narodowe in Wrocław … More

This is an extract from a much longer essay which I wrote about the work of artist Jarek Kozakiewicz who … More

This essay on the afterlives of Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ appeared in Polish in Nigdy więcej. Sztuka przeciw wojnie i faszyzmowi … More

I gave this lecture in New York at the Bard Graduate Centre in 2018 at a symposium on Revivalism in … 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

This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a … More

This talk was given in Zurich at ETH in autumn 2014. In the late 1950 and 1960s a new kind … More