What can one do with a cobblestone? This was a question asked and answered by Dóra Maurer in 1971.…
‘Consumer Art’ and Other Commodity Aesthetics in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule
This essay was written for a book which was published by Centrum Sztuki Nowoczesnej in Warsaw in January 2017.…
Király’s Immoderate Fashion
In 1986 Tamás Király arranged for his latest collection to be photographed on the steps of the Műcsarnok, the kunsthalle…
Art, Emotion and Activism in the Post-Socialist Cityscape in Eastern Europe
In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on…
The Peasant in the City
This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here.…
Notes from the Underground
In September, Daniel Muzyczuk and I curated a show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz…
The Poster Remediated – installation shots and press
These installation shots in Poster Museum at Wilanów were provided by Podpunkt, the excellent studio which designed the show and the…
Modernism Redux
In October 1993, Charles Jencks, the leading advocate of architectural postmodernism, was guest of honour at an international conference and…
The Poster Remediated
Extracts from a longer essay exploring the future of the poster which will be published in Warsaw in June 2016…
All Power to the People
This is a draft version of a short essay which will appear in a book accompanying ‘The Sixties: A Worldwide…