Lectures you planned to attend, but...
Open Museum 2013/2014

The editorial team of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw presents a subjective ranking of the most interesting lectures that took place in recent months in the framework of the "Open Museum" - a program of meetings with artists, art historians and critics.

Among others we recommend the lecture by John Verwoert. The curator and art critic shows an alternative method of reading and writing the history of art. He talks about what has happened in the kitchen of Marcel Duchamp, what Henryk Stażewski and Edward Krasiński were arguing about and reveals many more interesting “kitchen stories” from the history of art.

We also recommend the lecture by James Lingwood, who presents the history of a certain place on Earth, where artists’ dreams come true. This place is called Artangel – an institution that has been supporting unconventional artistic projects for over 20 years. The projects supported by Artangel include a die-cast concrete house or an unsuccessful walk on a wire stretched between the blocks of the largest housing estate in London.