‘social history’

…     ➤  ASSOCIATED EVENT Thursday, 21 May 2026, 16.00-18.00 pm (CET) HISTORY/REALITY #4: from The Garden of Communication to the Dark Forest of the Internet An afternoon of presentations, performances, and discussion Partly hybrid event held in English For online participation booking is essential.  Free tickets via Eventbrite.   archivuminternetwork  marks 30 years of Artpool Art Research Center’s presence on the internet. Since its  launch …

Infrastructures of Selling Modern and Contemporary Art in Socialism and Postsocialism We invite proposals for a forthcoming edited volume that critically examines the infrastructures of art markets in Central and Eastern Europe during and after the socialist era. This peer-reviewed volume aims to shed light on the diverse systems that enabled the production, distribution, and exchange of modern and contemporary art, not only through established …

… having also turned into community educational spaces for the general public. Likewise, the social and public health museums, which emerged at the turn of the century, did not simply aim to be the latest spaces opening up the hidden treasures of palaces to the public, but rather sought to share a different kind of knowledge connected to the present. All of this lead to the appearance of the body, living conditions, and problems of the worker; museums included the lower classes in their …

… “Minorities as Hubs of Cultural Transfer: The Bosch+Bosch Group” Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, “Socialization of the Private? The Emergence of Polish Mail Art and the Ideas of Democratic Opposition” Cristian Nae, “Constellational Modernisms: ‘Socialist Humanism’ and ‘Contextual Art’ in Ion Bitzan and Wanda Mihuleac’s Graphic Art of the 1970s” The print articles constitute the second part of the special issue published by ArtMargins Online entitled “Regional Resonances. …

… around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. In our display we present publications from 1986 to 2003 selected from the rich fanzine collection of the Artpool Art Research Center. The two themes of the selected publications—music (related to punk and other alternative …