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  • Karol Radziszewski, Hyacinth, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 78 3⁄4 × 118 1⁄8".

    Karol Radziszewski, Hyacinth, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 78 3⁄4 × 118 1⁄8".

    Karol Radziszewski

    Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

    The past decade in Poland has witnessed a sexual revolution in reverse: The increasingly conservative Polish government, which turned staunchly right wing in 2015, chose the LGBTQ community as its handpicked public enemy number one. Never particularly welcome in Polish society regardless of the regime, LGBTQ people are now targets of relentless negative state propaganda. The Polish situation has come to mirror the American culture wars of the 1980s, with art shows at public institutions targeted for inappropriate content funded by “taxpayers’ money.” That Karol Radziszewski’s midcareer retrospective,

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