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When Work Becomes Play

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

Barbican Art Gallery, Bauhaus

Sounding the Body Electric, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź – June to August 2012

Agata Pyzik’s review of the show from the August edition of The Wire is here. Polish readers might find these…

Chance Operations – an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała

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

Experimental Music, Foksal Gallery, John Cage, Komar and Melamid, Milan Grygar

‘Laughing at My Head’ – The ‘Immature’ Art of Neue Bieremiennost

I was commissioned to write a piece about the early years of artist Mirosław Bałka and his colleagues when they…

Two books on Polish graphic design …

Against All Odds. Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949 (also published in Polish as Nie gęsi. Polskie projektowanie graficzne 1919–1949) by Piotr…

From Homelessness to Homelessness

This essay was written as a coda to a book edited by Robin Schuldenfrei, Atomic Dwelling (Routledge, 2012) ♦  Covering…

Architecture and the Image of the Future in the People’s Republic of Poland

The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases … Karl…

leisure, socmodernism

Paradise Lost?

This piece was published in Piktogram in 2005. ♦ The Art of Home In 1956 a member of the British…

Andrea Zittel, Marjetica Potrč, socmodernism

Roman Cieślewicz, Changement de Climat, 1976-77

In the 1970s Cieślewicz turned his scalpel on the magazines which had given him employment in Paris in the 1960s.…

Roman Cieslewicz, decorated alphabet from La France mysterieuse published by Claude Tchou, 1964

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This is a notebook and an archive. I use this blog to sketch thoughts into words and to post articles and reviews already in print which are difficult to source or in translation. If you are interested to look further, you'll mostly find writing on graphic design and/or Eastern Europe here. You'll need to scroll down the page. There are some downloads and links in the menu above.

- David

You can email me at crowleyd[at]staff.ncad.ie

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