WHO’S WHO: Sławomir Kupczak BY Filip Lech Music ‘My audience isn’t always aware that I don’t treat all the musical gestures I write down in my scores seriously’ – says the composer about the risks of using humour
Jewish Surrealism BY Karol Sienkiewicz Art He uses humour as a tool with which to probe the resilience of social taboos. Roee Rosen in Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw till 3 July
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN REVISITED:B as in Bobsled BY Małgorzata Łukasiewicz Literature The Magic Mountain presents a case against what Mann called a “fatal enchantment”, the sources of which he saw in German Romanticism, in Novalis, Schopenhauer, Wagner. In fact, a sled is the perfect choice for the vehicle of the death-as-seductress
