Hi,

This week, I finally published a blog about my visit to the London Transport Museum last month, so I will direct you to go have a look at that link instead of writing too much here.

It's mostly the story of the Festival of Britain, a big ambitious event held in 1951 with an interesting political and artistic backstory. The blog is a 10-minute read (hence my cheeky subject line):

https://translatingmarek.com/marek-zulawski-mural-london-transport-museum-festival-of-britain/

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Toruń exhibition: small update

Just to say that I am helping with the creation of the Marek Zulawski retrospective exhibition's accompanying catalogue, which is due to go into print later this month.

As well as being beautifully produced and bilingual, the book will feature essays about the history of Polish émigré art, the incredible collection of the University Museum in Toruń, and, of course, Marek's life and career.

The exhibition will be open from mid-September until the end of the year at the excellent Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń.

Article of the week

In the story about the London Transport Museum above, I mention how Marek's piece is kept in a specialised storage room of the LTM. People are allowed to visit this room on the private tours that they do there, with many works displayed to be admired.

But that isn't how some art storage places work. Viewers of Christopher Nolan's confusing and loud movie Tenet (if you've seen it, watch this sketch) will recall that a lot of the action takes place in a massive art store held in a port away from the reach of the tax man, a place where nobody sees any art but its owners reap massive tax benefits. It turns out places like this are all too real, and the New York Times has a great piece about it: One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections Hides Behind This Fence.

That's all for this week. Many thanks for reading. Until next time, go pet a dog, it's nice.

Adam

Adam Zulawski

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