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The People’s Republic of Dwarfs
Art + Stories
Experiences, Fiction

The People’s Republic of Dwarfs

The Orange Alternative was one of the most memorable social movements in the dying years of communism. Why? Because it involved painting dwarfs.
Zbigniew Libera
From the Desert to Museums
Art + Stories
Art

From the Desert to Museums

Long marginalized as ‘primitive art’, the art of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia is slowly but surely gaining global recognition.
Karol Sienkiewicz
The Pygmalion Effect
Art + Stories
Experiences, Art

The Pygmalion Effect

According to the ancient myth, the king and sculptor Pygmalion fell in love with an ivory statue of his own creation. What do such legends tell us about the human psyche?
Anna Arno
The King of Krakowskie Przedmieście
Art + Stories
Experiences, Fiction

The King of Krakowskie Przedmieście

Andrzej Partum was an orphan and vagabond, a provocateur of the cultural establishment, and – to some people, at least – mentally ill. But he was above all an artist.
Zbigniew Libera
The Humble Poet
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Experiences

The Humble Poet

In a small Slovakian village lived a local cobbler, József Balogh. He was a seemingly unremarkable man, yet the folk art he created outside his house was a joy to behold.
Gergő Fülöp
Not Just the Mona Lisa
Soul + Body
Good Mood

Not Just the Mona Lisa

The most famous smile in art belongs to Mona Lisa. Yet upturned lips have a much longer history in portraiture, indicating a wide range of emotions – mystery, bliss and even disgust.
Anna Arno
Goddess O’Keeffe
Art + Stories
Experiences

Goddess O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe – the first lady of the American avant-garde, the mother of American painting – deserves her place in the pantheon of women whose art made history.
Julia Fiedorczuk
Audubon’s Birds
Art + Stories
Art

Audubon’s Birds

Today, the 19th-century American artist and ornithologist John James Audubon is considered one of the founding fathers of American ecology. But what makes his work so special?
Agnieszka Drotkiewicz
A Curious Joker
Art + Stories
Art

A Curious Joker

The Italian artist Bruno Munari has had an indelible impact on the imaginations of many, but especially those of children, whose curiosity and flexibility he encouraged throughout his work.
Aleksandra Kędziorek
Jump!
Art + Stories
Experiences

Jump!

“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears,” the photographer Philippe Halsman recalled. At the end of the photo shoot, he would say with a smile on his face: “Jump!”
Philippe Halsman