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A Very Bushy Tale

Shapeshifting trickster foxes are part of Chinese and Japanese folklore. Often portrayed as women, their mythological presence reveals social attitudes and anxieties.

Maciej Świetlik

Art + Stories

Experiences

From Eye to Bone

Bartosz Wajer’s works in the “From Eye to Bone” series are photographs from erotic portals that are rephotographed without the standard use of a lens. The artist instead employing the exposed matrix of a digital camera, a handheld lens, and manual manipulation. Utilizing the equipment against the rules of ‘proper’ photography seems to be a cognitively effective technique. By stripping erotic content of the conventions of titillating imagery, one discovers its comic and, at the same time, disturbing nature.

Bartosz Wajer

Art + Stories

Experiences

Corona Rhapsody

In the song “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Freddy Mercury asks: “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” Ever since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, we, too, have been confronted with questions about what is actually happening around us and where the border between fantasy and reality lies.

Rafael Heygster , Helena Manhartsberger

Art + Stories

Art

Jewels for a Select Few

The rituals of the Freemasons are shrouded in secrecy, but what about the symbols and iconography on Masonic jewellery?

Tomasz Wichrowski

World + People

The Other School

The Prickly Sinner

In many parts of Europe, the image of a hedgehog with an apple on his back is an iconic one—but in fact, the pleasant picture belies a long history of negative associations with the little animal.

Łukasz Modelski

World + People

Science

Simple Answers Don’t Exist

Jan Dzierzgowski

The Entangled Stories of the Baltic States

World + People

Science

The Entangled Stories of the Baltic States

Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians have inhabited the region for centuries—sometimes under the same rulers, but always with individual identities.

Jakub Niedźwiedź

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