The Bloomsberries Come To Cracow
The British ambassador to Poland, Mr Ric Todd, was in Cracow on Wednesday where he opened the exhibition "British Bohemia: The Bloomsbury Circle of Virginia Woolf."
Besides pondering the merits of British and Polish sausages, Mr Todd expressed his delight at launching what was the first ever show in Poland about the legendary circle of artists.
Curator Tony Bradshaw noted that even in his native England, the Bloomsbury Group had almost disappeared off the map by the 1960s, but pinned their revival on the play Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf and the subsequent film of the same title, even though neither had anything to do with the famed scribe.
Besides Woolf, the Bloomsbury Group included such dazzling literary talents as E.M Forster, as well as the painters Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant, and the economist Milton Keynes. They gained some notoriety for their commitment to a form of free love, and complicated amorous entanglements were a steady feature of the Group.
The Cracow exhibition recreates classic Bloomsbury interiors, complemented by dozens of paintings, photographs, photographs and books.
"British Bohemia: The Bloomsbury Circle of Virginia Woolf" is on show at the International Cultural Centre, Rynek Glowny 25, until 9th January 2010