Wojciech Weiss Museum Foundation has inaugurated their website www.wojciechweiss.pl. It gives detailed biographies of the artist and his wife Aneri, bibliography of Weiss studies for the period 1997-2007 and a selection of his pictures with a special section devoted to the lost paintings by Weiss.

The catalogue of exhibition "In the Footsteps of the Pre-Raphaelites: Polish Artists and British Art at the Turn of 20th Century" is available from the Museum of the Wilanów Palace in Warsaw.

Monographic exhibition of Józef Pankiewicz opened at the National Museum in Warsaw on Monday January 9th. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of this important painter ever organized.

Natalia Solomanova and Elena Mischina published a catalogue of works by Aleksander Orłowski in the collection of the National Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (Palace Editions 2002).

On March 8th opened the exhibition "Man in the background" I curated together with Joanna Torchała and Renata Higersberger. It can be seen at the Gasworks Museum in Warsaw until May 13th. Ten images of fin-de-siecle women by Polish artists are juxtaposed with 15 sculptures by Polish 20 c. women sculptors. There is a nice colour catalogue which among other things brings biographical sketches of some lesser known artists.

The exhibition "Artist on holidays?" will reopen at the Muzeum Chełmskie in Chełm on April 5th.

The exhibition of Italian pictures by Polish artists around 1900 that I'm working on right now, will open in the Wilanów Palace on 14th January 2005. The show will comprise more than 90 paintings, drawings and prints on Italian subjects. Krystyna Mart from the Chełm Museum and Paweł Jaskanis from Wilanów Palace responded enthusiastically to the idea, which made this exhibition possible. Majority of the works included are little or not known to general public.

Jerzy Miziołek delivers a lecture "Ispirazioni mediterranee di un pittore polacco a Roma, Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902)" on Wednesday 26th of May in Auditorium dell'Accademia Polacca (vicolo Doria 6B, Palazzo Doria in Rome). More informations: www.accademiapolacca.it

Promotion of the memorial jubilee book "Zachęta 1860 - 2000" took place in the Zachęta Gallery yesterday and gathered many distiniguished art historians and people connected with Zachęta as well as both recent and previous Zachęta directors Agnieszka Morawińska and Anda Rottenberg.

National Museum in Warsaw organized exhibition of Witold Wojtkiewicz which opened in musée de grenoble on March 5th. It wasn't easy... So rush there (or to Warsaw where it will come later) as another Wojtkiewicz show is HIGHLY unlikely.

On February 27th Muzeum Śląskie in Katowice opened an exhibition devoted to students of Jan Matejko. As can be judged from its catalogue the exhibition is rather vast and comprises works not only by Jacek Malczewski, Maurycy Gottlieb or Józef Mehoffer but also Ludomir Benedyktowicz, Szymon Buchbinder, Antoni Gramatyka, Stanisław Grocholski, Zofia Kossak, Karol Maszkowski, Stefan Witold Matejko (artists son), Kazimierz and Władysław Pochwalskis, Jan Styka, Bolesław Szańkowski, Józef Unierzyski and many, many others. There is a catalogue, which contains biographic notes about artists and notes about most of the pictures. Quality of reproductions is not exciting as well as the layout, but nowadays it is a great success that there is any catalogue at all. The list at the end gives names of 94 artists who were Matejko students and it seems that almost all of them are represented in the show.

Association Pour la Promotion de l'Art Polonais APAP and BEAUX-ARTS MAGAZINE prepare a special issue devoted to Polish art. The project was an idea of the founder of APAP Ewa Izabela Nowak who is helped now by Dr. Ewa Bobrowska-Jakubowska.

Just a short mention about a catalogue of Polish art in Kiszyniów (Chisinau, Moldova). Anna Grochala and Krzysztof Załęski of the National Museum in Warsaw prepared a catalogue. It contains information about 71 paintings, drawings and prints by artists active in Poland (Jean Pierre Norblin,Franciszek Smuglewicz,Józef Oleszkowicz, Michał Stachowicz, Jan Feliks Piwarski, Kajetan Wincenty Kielisiński, Aleksander Orłowski, Antoni Oleszczyński, Fryderyk Kleinmann and others). Polish Art From the collections of The National Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Moldova

Altri Stromenti website is growing and will feature soon texts of two lectures by Leszek Firek on baroque violin technique.

Muzeum Śląskie in Opole has interesting exhibition on "bractwa kurkowe" in Silesia. It also presents a very interesting selection of Polish painting from its collection. Muzeum Karkonoskie shows paintings by Vlastimil Hofman from Polish and Czech collections.

“Portret za mgłą. Opowieść o Oldze Boznańskiej’ by Maria Rostworowska published by Terra Nova is a new monography of Olga Boznańska. The author uses extensively tons of unpublished letters and press reviews from the collections of Czartoryski Library in Cracow and Polish Library in Paris. This is definitely not a replacement for earlier works by Helena Blum but rather a very important extension covering many previously neglected moments in Boznańska's life. A must for everyone in search for all those lost masterpieces by Boznańska.

There are still very few art-historical resources on Polish 19th and 20th century artists available on-line. Artifex" (magazine of Art History students of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University) published an article by Monika Czekanowska on Iconography of the painting "Christ Before Pilate" (1887-79) by Maurycy Gottlieb.

Promotion of most recent monography on Olga Boznańska by Maria Rostworowska took place in Cracow on 14th February. The book is full of unpublished materials: letters, press reviews etc. The author focuses on biographical informations, but there are also many inforamtions about Boznańska's pictures and exhibitions she took part in. Definitely one of the most important books on Polish 19th and early 20th century painters in a few years.

The exhibition of Polish fin-de-siecle prepared by Polish Art Gallery of the National Museum in Warsaw opened in Madrid recently. Unfortunately it is still absent on Mapfre Vida website, but you can get the catalague, which is probably one of the most impressive publications on Polish painting outside Poland. Here is an article in metropoli.com and in LaNetro. however.

KLE Warsztat Graficzny is going to resume its activities. It will publish soon a CD with music by Uccellini and other Italian composers performed by Altri Stromenti. List of compositions on CD and other info.

Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie will participate in two exhibitions abroad soon. "Leonardo da Vinci and Splendor of Poland" will open in September in Milwaukee and then will travel to Houston and San Francisco. The exhibition of Polish fin-de-siecle art will open in winter 2002 in Fundación Cultural MAPFRE VIDA in Madrid. You can read here my catalogue entries for this exhibition.

18.00 - Wykład ,,Teodor de Wyzewa: Dlaczego Polacy nie moga być artystami?'' w Zachęcie.