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Ideas from the Void
Art + Stories
Art

Ideas from the Void

On the eve of receiving her award from the Society of Illustrators, regular “Przekrój” illustrator Joanna Grochocka talks about the glory days of Polish illustration, what inspires her, and how she finds an original language for her art.
Przekrój
A Subversive Master of Earnestness
Art + Stories
Art

A Subversive Master of Earnestness

Marina Abramović has finally returned to her hometown Belgrade with the retrospective exhibition “The Cleaner”. How does the performance artist’s legacy resonate in the city that she has largely left behind?
Ana Uzelac
Ceruse to Whiten the Complexion
World + People
Science

Ceruse to Whiten the Complexion

There was a time when the use of white lead for skin whitening was all the rage. Yet without the relevant knowledge of chemistry, the pursuit of beauty can be fatal...
Joanna Nikodemska
Painted Dogs
Art + Stories
Art

Painted Dogs

Man’s best friend has accompanied us through the ages, as we can see from their depiction in fine art. But what can these paintings tell us about the dog owners of yore?
Aleksandra Galewska
A Prayer Without Words
Art + Stories

A Prayer Without Words

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” is one of the most famous paintings in art history. But what exactly does this image of a lone man standing on a rock mean?
Anna Arno
In Saturn’s Embraces
Art + Stories
Experiences

In Saturn’s Embraces

Born in Upper Silesia to a family of coal-miners, Teofil Ociepka was one of Poland’s best-known naïve artists. He was particularly fascinated by occultism, too.
Zbigniew Libera
Lily Briscoe’s Painting
Art + Stories
Art

Lily Briscoe’s Painting

A writer channels the spirit of Virginia Woolf to reflect on the significance of a painting from her novel “To the Lighthouse”, both for the character who painted it and for the author herself.
Grzegorz Uzdański
The Stump Prophet
Art + Stories
Art

The Stump Prophet

To some, Karol Wójciak was a local eccentric; to others, he was an artist with a singular aesthetic. To most, he was known as Heródek, the creator of wooden gnotek sculptures of angels and saints.
Berenika Steinberg
The Evil Continent
Art + Stories
Art

The Evil Continent

Do we already belong to a lost civilization, although we do not yet know it? Does President Erdoğan have any painting talent? Will the seventh continent become the new Pangea? And what does the contemporary art world think about all of this?
Stach Szabłowski
Venus in Childbirth
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Art

Venus in Childbirth

The sight of a naked body is no longer scandalizing. But does it still inspire awe? We present art history’s most famous nudes.
Anna Arno