The Freedom of Sound. John Cage behind the Iron Curtain

John Cage was one of the most important 20th-century creators of music. His artistic experiments brought him fame not only in the West but also behind the Iron Curtain. He often visited the countries of the Eastern Bloc and his performances allowed him to establish contacts not only with musicians but also with representatives of other artistic disciplines. The exhibition in the Ludwig Museum – the Museum of Contemporary Art – is an artistic record of these visits as well as an attempt at showing the influence of Cage’s music on the art of Central Europe, which can still be observed today.

To orchestrate the city

Krzysztof Czyżewski, artistic director of Wrocław, European Capital of Culture 2016, talks to Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga

VIRIBUS UNITIS?

Polish parliamentarians in the Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918 International Cultural Centre Gallery, Krakow 14 September – 18 November 2012

The Weimar palimpsest. Side notes on the competition for the design of the Bauhaus Museum

The Bauhaus Museum building by the Gauforum could join together and reconcile things which are diffi cult to reconcile: the urban space degraded by the investments from the 1930s, the war and the post-war demolitions.

Hello Honni! Goodbye Lenin!

Iwona Reichardt in her review for the "New Eastern Europe": In the context of the exhibition and the search for answers to the questions that its viewing poses, it is important to mention the newest issue of "Herito"

Polish-Russians Dialogue

26 October 2012, 6 p.m. Russia and Russians in the mirror of contemporary Russian literature A lecture by Irina Prokhorowa Lectures organised in cooperation with the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding are an inherent part of the tradition of debates about the culture of European countries held in the International Cultural Centre. The leading theme of the planned series of meetings is contemporary Poland and Russia, with a special emphasis on issues related to literature, culture, history and national heritage.

Think: literature!

The Conrad Festival starts this Monday (the 22nd of October). Throughout the entire week (until Sunday, the 28th of October), brilliant writers from all over the world will visit Krakow including: Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk, Hungarian writer and essayist, Petér Esterházy, British writer and feminist, Jeanette Winterson, and Croatian writer and essayist, Dubravka Ugrešić. Among the Polish writers and reportage writers who have confirmed their participation, are: Zygmunt Miłoszewski, Mikołaj Łoziński, Eustachy Rylski, Wojciech Jagielski, Krzysztof Varga, Jacek Dehnel, Magdalena Tulli, Małgorzata Szejnert, Piotr Sommer, and NIKE Literary Award winners – Marian Pilot, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki and Marek Bieńczyk. As always, the Festival Centre be located at Pałac Pod Baranami (Rynek Główny 27).

Contemporary still temporary

W 2007 roku Christian Kerez, słabo w Polsce znany szwajcarski architekt, wygrał międzynarodowy konkurs na gmach Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie. W życiu publicznym zawrzało. Zamiast wymarzonego klejnotu dla centrum stolicy wybrano białe pudełko. Ruszyły protesty, spory, zmiany planów i narastające problemy. Jednym słowem: skandal. Jego apogeum przypadło na koniec kwietnia 2012 roku: miasto Warszawa zerwało umowę z architektem. Sprawa została skierowana do sądu.

The conference „Regions of Memory. A Comparative Perspective on Eastern Europe”

The conference „Regions of Memory. A Comparative Perspective on Eastern Europe” is the second international event of the “Genealogies of Memory” project. The event will be held on Nov. 26-28, 2012 in the Warsaw University Library. During the conference we want to compare different memories, ways of forgetting and dealing with the experiences of mass violence in societies that suffered under totalitarian regimes in the 20th century.

Emil Brix "Z powrotem w Europie Środkowej" [Central Europe re visited]

The Biblioteka Europy Środka series edited by Jacek Purchla has gained a new publication