Ania Kaczynska

Author

Art historian and aspiring writer. Interested in contemporary art from Eastern Europe, Latin America and East Asia, transnational networks of artistic collaboration and exchange, and modernist architecture and design.

Articles by Ania

Quiz

QUIZ: Do You Know These Famous Churches?

Ania Kaczynska 28 September 2024

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QUIZ: When Was This Made? Guess the Century

Ania Kaczynska 14 September 2024

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QUIZ: Can You Guess This Ancient God?

Ania Kaczynska 7 September 2024

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QUIZ: Guess the Art Technique

Ania Kaczynska 27 July 2024

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QUIZ: Feminist Art (That Changed the Art World)

Ania Kaczynska 25 July 2024

Review

About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art

About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art was initially an exhibition that marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Previously on...

Ania Kaczynska 9 May 2024

House in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, Arbol, 2019. Image credit: Photo © Yasunori Shimomura (pages 38-39) Asian Art

Japanese Interiors: An Ode to Exterior Within Interior

In an essay included in his book Design as Art, published in 1966, artist and designer Bruno Munari lauded the simplicity, luminosity, and...

Ania Kaczynska 15 April 2024

Interview

Navigating the Complexities of Identity: Interview with Tomokazu Matsuyama

Tomokazu Matsuyama is a contemporary New York based Japanese artist who explores his bi-cultural upbringing through his unique artistic style. He...

Ania Kaczynska 8 April 2024

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Video Art Pioneer: Nam June Paik in 5 Artworks

It’s easy to notice the widespread presence of media arts in almost all aspects of our daily lives, but that wasn’t always the case: when new...

Ania Kaczynska 13 January 2024

Gallery view of the Marina Abramović exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, from 23 September 2023 – 1 January 2024, showing Four Crosses (detail), 2019. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives. © Marina Abramović. Photo © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry Contemporary Art

Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy in London

In 1997, Marina Abramović (b. 1946) attempted to scrub clean over 1,500 cows’ bones at the 47th Venice Biennale. The performance, titled Balkan...

Ania Kaczynska 9 November 2023