Though Warsaw has rebuilt from ruins, its streets still bear the scars of the 1944 Uprising – bullet holes, shattered ...

When the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan at the end of WWII, one man in particular was affected by the death and destruction. Having helped create the weapon, he dedicated the rest of his life to ...

Fenek Studio is the Warsaw-based ceramics workshop of Tosia Kiliś and Agata Klimkowska, who met at the School of Form. Over the past decade, they’ve built a thriving practice rooted in hand-crafted ...

Roma-Polish artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas reclaims the image of her community through vibrant, tactile works that blend activism, memory and family stories. In this conversation, she reflects on art as ...

From grassy fields and wooden sheds to sleek steel-and-glass terminals, Poland’s airports have soared through a century of change. Whether it’s Warsaw’s Pole Mokotowskie where aviation dreams took ...

We all know the French are superb at making wine, the Brits are great sailors and that nobody can play football quite as spectacularly as the Brazilians (save for one Argentinian who plays in a league ...

Hollywood has a prolific history of spicing up every story they use as the basis for a film script. The Zookeeper’s Wife is hardly an exception, so if you are dying to know which parts of this ...

The most troublesome feature of Polish orthography is what linguists call complex consonant clusters ‒ series of consonants without any vowels. They occur in many languages, including English; for ...

Poland has a remarkable and rich history when it comes to graphic design. The Polish School of Poster, well-known and respected around the globe, is but a piece of its graphic design legacy. Meet 18 ...

Whether it is the harvest, celebrating fire, water, a new birth, a marriage ceremony, or death – Slavs knew how to mark their every day and every night. Let us see how much of the Slavic soul still ...

Chopin's 24 Preludes are universally recognized as some of the composer's most characteristic works. Not only are they quintessential of his style, but are also deeply tied with upheavals in Chopin's ...