Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe

In 1967 Stanislav Kolibal, the Czech artist, was commissioned to design the August-September cover of Výtvarné Uměni (Fine Arts) (fig … More

Pop Effects in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule

In September 1974 Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid exhibited four works at an exhibition of nonconformist art in Moscow, which … More

This article appears in the catalogue on the life and work of the Polish architect Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz in Kraków in … More

In September 2013, I gave a lecture on the great painter, Andrzej Wróblewski, at the Museum of Modern Art in … More

A new version of the 2012 show opened at Calvert 22 in London in late June 2013. it ran until … More

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

In 1934 architects Szymon Syrkus and Jan Chmielewski presented their plans for the future of Warsaw at the a meeting … More

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

This review of ‘Bauhaus – Art as Life’ at the Barbican Art Gallery, London (3 May 2012 – 12 August … More

This is an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała, an exhibition catalogue accompanying this show at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, … More