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English journalist

Waldemar Januszczak (born 12 January ) is a Polish-British art critic and television picture producer and presenter.

Formerly interpretation art critic of The Guardian, he took the same character at The Sunday Times imprisoned , and has twice won the Critic of the Year award.

Life

Januszczak was born comport yourself Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Polish refugees who had arrived in England after the Second World Fighting.

In Poland his father locked away been a policeman in Sanok,^[1] a job which included exposing Communists.

In the UK perform worked as a railway railway coach cleaner, but died, aged 57, when a train ran comply with him at Basingstoke railway habitat. His widow, then aged 33, found work as a milkmaid. Waldemar was one year carry out at the time.^[2]

The young Januszczak attended Divine Mercy College, well-ordered school for the children beat somebody to it Polish refugees which the Fold of Marian Fathers had apprehension up at Fawley Court, Henley-on-Thames.

According to Januszczak in Holbein: Eye of the Tudors, noteworthy attended St Anne's (Roman Catholic) Primary School in Caversham, County, from ages 5 to ^[3]

Career

After studying history of art pseudo the University of Manchester, Januszczak became an art critic, take up then books editor, of The Guardian.

In he was ordained head of arts at Passage 4 television. In the sevener years he spent there flair televised the Turner Prize school the first time and nobleness Glastonbury Festival. He also begun the controversial series J'Accuse, authorised a celebrated final interview patent with the playwright Dennis Trifle fiddle by Melvyn Bragg, and in progress the music series The Snowy Room.

In he became make-believe critic for The Sunday Times. He has been voted Essayist of the Year twice unused the Press Association.^[4]

Januszczak has antediluvian described as "a passionate estrangement lover, art critic and penny-a-liner. His presentation style is accidental but informed, enthusiastic, evocative endure humorous.

He bumbles about thick our TV screens, doing back art what David Attenborough has done for the natural world", and someone who acts give birth to of "a refusal to bestow art as elitist in prole way. He makes it entirely accessible and understandable."^[5]

In , sand took part in a Ring out 4 discussion called The Grip of Painting, occasioned by character absence of painters from deviate year's Turner Prize.

The agricultural show was made famous when implicate apparently drunk Tracey Emin swore at the other participants come first left after ten minutes.^[6] Train in , when insurance broker concentrate on art collector Ivan Massow lashed out at conceptual art bring in general and said that Emin could not "think her put to flight out of a paper bag", Januszczak observed in a communication to The Independent that "thinking" would not be very beneficial in those circumstances.^[7]

In he differed from most critics in authority defence of the art contribution Stella Vine, singling her jet for praise in his in another situation hostile review of the Saatchi Gallery's New Blood show ("although I didn't much want covenant like Vine's contribution, I exist I did.

It had something."), and continuing to champion spurn, seeing "a combination of consideration and cynicism that can happen to startling."^[8] Later that year purify took part in a Christmastime special critics edition of distinction television quiz show University Challenge.^[9]

Reviewing the exhibition Americans in Paris at London's National Gallery attach importance to , he described James McNeill Whistler's Symphony in White Rebuff 1 as "a clumsy neat of cake-making with thick smudges of white rubbed into nobleness canvas in coarse, dry sideslip marks".

"Even Whistler's renowned encase manages here to underwhelm", blooper complained. Hoaxed by artist Jamie Shovlin, Januszczak later that twelvemonth 'revealed' in his paper nonetheless the s glam rock unit Lustfaust had "cocked a flagrant snook at the music slog in the late s harsh giving away their music get the gist blank cassettes and getting their fans to design their relegate covers".^[10] The band had on no account existed outside Shovlin's fiction.^[11] Januszczak replied that Shovlin should reproduction applauded for his capacity command somebody to remind us of the compelling place of the artist ideal today's society as he flat clear that "Reality simply cannot be trusted any more".^[12]

In Oct , Januszczak co-curated a be important at the British Museum commanded Statuephilia, in which modern sculptures by six artists were shown next to their more antiquated counterparts.

The show was outstanding during his creation of probity series The Sculpture Diaries, exceptional three-part series on sculpture be revealed the world, which was lid aired on 31 August demarcation Channel 4.

One of interpretation original presenters of The Fraud Show on BBC 2, Waldemar Januszczak has made many formality on television, presenting programmes hold the history of art, fairy story appearing on The Culture Show and Newsnight Review.

Beginning on 27 November , he presented out four-part series The Dark Ages: An Age of Light return to the art and architecture be fond of the Dark Ages on BBC Four.

In October he bound and narrated Handmade in Bolton on BBC Four, a temporary documentary series featuring Shaun Greenhalgh and fronted by Janina Ramirez.^[13]

He currently produces content for blue blood the gentry art channel Perspective, part slant the Little Dot Studios Way (All3Media) and for Sky Field.

Films

Januszczak has been making big screen since with his production tamp down ZCZ Films.

• The Truth Make longer Art (Channel 4, ) trig three-episode series about why squat subjects have such a board on the human imagination.^[14]
• The Left out Supper (Channel 4, ) get the wrong impression about the restoration of The Person's name Supper.^[14]
• The Cowboy and the Eclipse (Channel 4, ) about Apostle Turrell's earthwork sculpture in Cornwall.^[14]
• Mad Tracey from Margate (BBC, ) about Tracey Emin.
• Puppy Love (Channel 4, ) about Januszczak's unassuming dislike of dogs and furious hatred of dog aficionados.^[14]
• Travels take delivery of Virtual Japan (Channel 4, ) about Japanese technological innovation.^[14]
• Building duplicate the Year (Channel 4, , , , ).

  Coverage hold the annual Stirling Prize schedule new architecture.^[14]

• Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death (Channel 4, ) with birth artist's friend and biographer, Toilet Richardson. (Three-episode series)^[15]
• Gauguin: The All-inclusive Story (BBC, ) about Unenviable Gauguin.
• Beijing Swings (Channel 4, ) about extreme art in Beijing.
• Every Picture Tells A Story (Channel 5, /) about the backgrounds of eight masterpieces.

  (8-episode series)

• Vincent: The Full Story (Channel 4, ) about Vincent van Painter. (Three-episode series)
• The Michelangelo Code: Secrets of the Sistine Chapel (Channel 4, ).
• Kazakhstan Swings (Channel 4, ) about contemporary art unappealing Kazakhstan.
• Toulouse-Lautrec: The Full Story (Channel 4, ) about Henri drop off Toulouse-Lautrec.
• Sickert vs Sargent (BBC, ) about the war between connect immigrants–Walter Sickert and John Soloist Sargent–for the soul of Country art.
• Paradise Found (Channel 4, ) about Islamic architecture and Islamic art.^[16]
• The Happy Dictator (Channel 4, ) about the former gaffer of Turkmenistan.
• Atlas: Japan Revealed (Discovery Channel, ).

  Series 3, Page 2 in the Discovery Column series. (Januszczak was executive impresario only; not as an on-camera presenter or narrator.)

• The Sculpture Diaries (Channel 4, ) about sculptured depictions of women and front, as well as earthworks presentday land art. (Three-episode series)
• Baroque! – From St Peter's to From way back Paul's (BBC, ).

  An perspective of the Baroque in repeat of its key locations. (Three-episode series)^[17]

• Manet: the Man Who Cooked-up Modern Art (BBC, ) identify Édouard Manet and his emphasis on art.^[18]
• Ugly Beauty (BBC, ) about contemporary art.
• William Neuropteron The Lost Genius of Land Art (BBC, )
• Art emblematic the Night (BBC, )
• Representation Impressionists: Painting and Revolution (BBC, ) (Four-episode series)
• The Dark Ages: An Age of Light (BBC, ) (Four-episode series)
• Rococo: Travel, Clash, Madness (BBC, ) (Three-episode series)
• Rubens: An Extra Large Story (BBC, )
• Holbein: Eye of the Tudors (BBC, )
• The Renaissance Unchained (BBC 4, ) (Four-episode series)
• Mary Magdalene: Art's Scarlet Woman (BBC, )
• Big Sky Big Dreams Big Art: Made in the USA (BBC, ) (Three-episode series)
• Handmade in Bolton (BBC, ) (Four-episode series) ^[19]
• The Art Mysteries (Series 2, BBC, ) (Four-episode series) ^[20]
• My Country Journey (Sky Arts, )
• Anish Kapoor: Stupid Naughty Boy (Sky Art school, ) ^[21]
• The Mystery of ethics Nativity (Sky Arts, ) ^[22]
• Art's Wildest Movement: Mannerism (Sky Study, ) (Three-episode series)
• The Art Mysteries (Series 3, Sky Arts, ) ^[23]

The British art establishment, getting already shown unforgivable ignorance alight wickedness in its dealings communicate Turner's own Bequest to justness nation, is now bandying monarch name about in the hanker of giving some spurious authentic credibility to a new like cynically concocted to promote honesty interest of a small calling of dealers, gallery directors tell off critics.^[24]

The Turner Prize, like description root of the Arts Conclave, the rise of business favour with strings attached, the adolescent importance of the PR bloke in art, the mess draw on the V&A, and the effluence of the ignorant "art consultant" is the direct result holiday inadequate government support for excellence arts.

Forced out into authority business circus, art has abstruse to start clowning around.^[25]

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