[ Waldemar Januszczak at the Venice Biennale ]
Arte [ 2007-11-01 ]

Waldemar Januszczak (born January 12, 1954) is a British art critic. Once The Guardian 's arts editor, he writes for The Sunday Times, and is a film maker of television arts documentaries. He has also worked at Channel 4 television – as Commissioning Editor for Arts Programmes.

Waldemar Januszczak was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire to Polish refugees who had arrived in Britain after World War II. His father, a policeman in Poland, whose job had included exposing Communists, found work as a railway carriage cleaner and died, aged 57,when a train ran over him at Basingstoke station, within a year of Januszczak's birth His widow,then aged 33, found work as a dairymaid.[1] The young Januszczak attended Divine Mercy College, a school for the children of Polish refugees which the Congregation of Marian Fathers had set up at Fawley Court, Henley-on-Thames.

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