Hi,This week, a mixed Poland-UK bag for you, some Marek-related, some newsy.Auction opportunityA rare opportunity to bid for a Marek painting has appeared. It looks very underpriced at the moment. I would recommend bidding if you like it. The auction...

Hi,If you enjoyed our last issue's look at Polish shops in the UK copying big names in Poland, you may have noticed this timely news sent in by a reader. I hadn't noticed the similarity in the logos in the case, but lawyers clearly did. As for all th...

Hi,This week, no Marek Zulawski stuff. Except for that sentence you just read. No, this week we need to talk about something much more important in everybody's life. The Polish shop copyright sagaAh, the local Polish shop. There they are, on your hig...

Hi,Before we start, a technical note: I've managed to separate the mailing lists of my two newsletters and put them on separate platforms. That means if you want to recommend this one but not the other to people, you don't have to worry about friends...

Hi,Ever wanted to introduce Polish culture to English friends but knew they weren't particularly interested?Or have you ever wanted to put together a small bookshelf for English visitors to a Polish home? Or put a themed bookshelf in one of those fan...

Hi,Just a brief update this week. Sick man gets filmed in HDThe other day I was interviewed for a new UK boxset of Andrzej Żuławski films. I can't say I was in the mood for it - I hadn't eaten anything in about 22 hours because I'd had a stomach bug...

Hi,Welcome to your fortnightly update of Polish-English artistic musings that mostly just focuses on a long-dead guy called Marek Zulawski. He has a new retrospective exhibition later this year in Toruń, so he could use some promo.Marek gets his firs...

Hi,This week, I'm very pleased to say that I know the official date of the new Marek Zulawski exhibition in Toruń CSW in Toruń, Poland: the opening will take place on Friday 8th September 2023.While the final layout is still being devised, and I even...

Hi,I've been spending a lot of time in the world of online auctions recently. Today I realised I had a newsletter to write, so I panicked and decided to combine the two.Marek Zulawski stuff on the InternetGoogle has so many hidden corners, doesn't it...

Hi,It's my birthday this week. I had no children two birthdays ago, one child on my last birthday, and two on my birthday this year. I do not plan on continuing the logic of this sequence... 😅Old man, young babyAll this parenthood malarkey has made...