In a dim corner of my room, for longer than my fancy thinks,A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me…
The Imagined East
This talk – presented at at summer school called ‘Our Many Easts’ at the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana -in Aug…
Technological Folklore
This is a short essay on the work of Valdis Celms, a Latvian artist and designer that I have long…
Sound-Colour-Space
A version of this essay is published in a book to accompany Ilona Keserü’s exhibition at Muzeum Susch (details here)…
As It Is: Art and the Mass Media Image in Gierek’s Poland
This essay will appear in Art in Translation later this year. It is a version of a talk that I…
New Art of the Times of the October Revolution, Warsaw 1967
This is a slightly longer version of an essay which will appear in a new anthology edited by Sven Spieker,…
Atomic Stations and Artificial Environments – Art and Science in Soviet Russia in the 1960s
This is a draft of an essay which appears a shorter version in a book accompanying “L’Âge atomique” exhibition curated…
Culture Bunkers
This is an extract of a longer preface that I have written for Michaela Janečková and Irena Lehkoživová’s new book,…
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…
Television Lies!
This is an extract of a longer essay commissioned by Karol Hordziej and Daniel Muzyczuk for a book to accompany…
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