This exhibition was mounted at the Estonian Museum of Architecture, in spring 2023. Curated by Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets,…
Unknown Pleasures: Tyszkiewicz’s Films
This essay on Teresa Tyszkiewicz’s extraordinary films is due for publication in a book edited by Zofia Machnicka in 2023.…
Super America: Polish Artists and Consumer Lifestyle
This is a link to a video of a lecture given in Poznan in spring 2023 at a excellent symposium…
Wanda Czełkowska
In early 2023, I was invited to write a short analysis of Wanda Czełkowska’s ‘Black Frieze’ for the retrospective exhibition…
A Widening Gyre: Paul Neagu and British Art in the 1970s
This is an extract from a much longer essay on the reception of Romanian artist Paul Neagu in the UK,…
Henryk Stażewski. Late Style
I curated this show for the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź in spring-summer 2023 with the close and very expert support…
The Publicity of the Private: Performance in Public in Eastern Europe in the 1970s
This is a short essay that will be published in Polish later this year. It sketches ideas and themes that…
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…
To the Left of Power? Radical Culture in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s
With Ieva Astahovska, Mari Laanements, I organised an online workshop over two days in autumn 2021 on the impact of…
Hands, Ears and Eyes. Humanism in Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s
In autumn 2020, I gave an online talk on humanism in graphic design in the 1950s and 1960s focusing on…
