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Superflat Depths
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Superflat Depths

Superflat is a postmodern art movement, founded by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and influenced by popular culture, such as manga and anime.
Karol Sienkiewicz
The Maths of Brush and Baton
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The Maths of Brush and Baton

Fractals – self-similar geometric patterns – might feel like a scientific concern, but they can also be observed in art, architecture and music.
Kajetan Giziński
I Was a Little Unruly
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I Was a Little Unruly

Kōji Kamoji was born in Japan, but shortly after graduating from art school he moved to Poland, where he has spent the rest of his life making paintings, drawings and installations.
Zbigniew Libera
The Body and Its Trace
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The Body and Its Trace

The work of the Cuban-American performance artist Ana Mendieta still resonates today, more than three decades after her untimely death.
Marta Ziółek
Japanese Crossword
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Japanese Crossword

Which photographs deserve to be presented to the outside world and which should be left out? Is a positive always more important than a negative?
Ania Diduch, Wojtek Wieteska
Digital Paradise
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Art

Digital Paradise

Photographer Wojtek Wieteska and curator Ania Diduch talk about their exhibition “Paradise 101” at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków.
Joanna Kinowska
An Army of Santas
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An Army of Santas

In December 1974, a troop of bearded men in red suits took to the streets of Copenhagen. What was their Christmas message?
Stach Szabłowski
Always Against the Grain
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Fiction, Opinions

Always Against the Grain

Xawery Dunikowski was the first in Poland to practise sculpture as an art; in fact, he remains one of Poland’s greatest sculptors.
Zbigniew Libera
Who’s Afraid of Helmut Newton?
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Who’s Afraid of Helmut Newton?

Art historian Ania Diduch and photographer Wojtek Wieteska talk with two curators of Helmut Newton about the nature of the German’s nude and fashion photography.
Ania Diduch, Wojtek Wieteska
Art Is Explosion!
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Art Is Explosion!

Some reject the art of Tarō Okamoto—including the Tower of the Sun—as primitive, yet he was perhaps one of the only truly avant-garde artists of Japan.
Karol Sienkiewicz