press review
Dis-Section of a Dead Body
In the article entitled What is the aim of the museum? What is the aim of the conference about it? Piotr Kowalik, the editor-in-chief, says that the conference A New Museum of Art – Contemporary or Modern? Places, Programs, Goals, which took place in the National Museum, Warsaw in March, a week after the long-awaited agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the Town Hall, was rather disappointing.
Kowalik stresses that he missed the information about the coexistence of the new museum with Zachęta Gallery and the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, especially as far as financial matters are concerned. He claims that the new museum is planned to rely mostly on grants from the Ministry of Culture, which seems to be a questionable project. This undertaking, so unique in Poland, haven’t been in any way presented to the public opinion (or at least, setting aside the articles by Dorota Jarecka in Gazeta Wyborcza).