Deutsch
English
FrançaisSub menu: Home
Home / Index of Authors
Cieslik, Mariusz
Subscribe to receive the texts of "Cieslik, Mariusz" as RSS feeds
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Polish men need their moustaches
Adam Małysz, the successful Polish ski jumper and proud wearer of a moustache, bade farewell to active sport last weekend. His departure could also mean the end of the moustache as a symbol of Polish masculinity, laments Mariusz Cieślik in the online edition of news magazine Newsweek Polska: "I very much fear that Adam Małysz may be the last representative of the generation of true moustache-wearers. They have been succeeded by the metrosexuals and the chic guys who treat moustaches like a fashionable gag. To claim that moustaches, of all things, are a typical feature of Polish males would perhaps be an exaggeration. But can it be mere coincidence that both the president and our greatest ever athlete both wear one? And let's not forget the Nobel Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa, who was once offered a million dollars to shave off his moustache. He wasn't interested."
» full article (external link, Polish)
More from the press review on the subject » Public Culture, » Society, » Poland
The dispute over a contemporary art museum in Warsaw
A new museum of contemporary art is to be built next to Warsaw's Culture Palace. In an international competition, a jury whose members included Daniel Libeskind, selected the design of Swiss architect Christian Kerez from 109 entries. However, the director of the museum project, Tadeusz Zielniewicz, was so appalled at the jury's choice that he resigned. Now the decision has been made not to use Kerez' plan. For Mariusz Cieslik, "the residents of Warsaw didn't like the plan for the museum building either. They said - not without reason - that it looked a radiator. Nevertheless, no one can tell me that things couldn't have been done better - sparing the city and country all the embarrassment. The Warsaw Rising Museum is one example of things being done properly. There are many indications that the then mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kaczynski, became president on the back of this successful project. The problem is that none of the politicians believe they can make their mark with contemporary art. This is why it's likely that nothing will come of it."
» full article (external link, Polish)
More from the press review on the subject » Architecture / Cities, » Exhibitions / Museums, » Poland
© 2005-2012