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When 5.5 Million Polish Citizens Signed a Birthday Card for the US
Ahead of July 4, the Library of Congress made all 111 volumes of a 1926 birthday card signed by 5.5 million Polish citizens available online.
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Report Finds Huge Gender Gap in Polish Art Schools
A new report by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation investigates a stark disparity in Poland’s art academies: women constitute 77% of students but only 22% of professors.
Art
The Good Citizens of Belarus
Without the freedom to express your political opinions, what does it really mean to be a good citizen? That's the question posed by the photographs in The Winners, a new book by Warsaw-based photographer Rafal Milach.
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The Plausibility of a Jewish Nun in Postwar Poland
Whenever a film arrives on the scene that has something exceptional, eccentric, or anomalous about it, it’s always likely to arouse the most excited, hyperbolic, and oftentimes varied response from critics. Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida seems to have accomplished just this.
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The Political Weight and Forgotten Creativity of Postwar Polish Film
Scorsese has recently organized a series, Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, comprised of 21 pristine digital restorations of Polish films released between 1957 and 1987.
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Artist Installs Guerrilla Rape Sculpture in Poland
A Polish art student illegally installed his sculpture of a man raping a woman in the Polish town of Gdansk, causing quite an international controversy.
Art
Politics of Space and Belonging and the Right of Return
IRVINE, California – There is a call for Jews to return to Poland — and it’s coming out of Irvine. Well, actually it’s coming from Israeli artist Yael Bartana, whose trilogy … and Europe Will Be Stunned, which occupied the Polish pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year, is currently having its Ame
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An Obsession with Art's Communicative Power
The latest monograph of the Contemporary Art Series covers the provocative Polish artist and trickster Pawel Althamer (b. 1967), discussing in minute detail his “sculptures, installations, and pubic interventions.” Without a doubt, Phaidon’s Pawel Althamer is the most substantial art book I’ve laid
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Postmodern Safe House Packs Itself Up
Your day in architectural GIFs: this home, designed by Polish architecture firm KWK Promes, transforms from luxury villa into tightly sealed black box, the ultimate safe house. The “Safe House”, completed in 2009, would be the ultimate for any Bond villain.