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Warsaw in the 1950s
“Based on the stay of Michel Foucault in Warsaw in the late 50’s, Foucault’s Room is a visual exploration of the post-war architecture of Warsaw over a text riddled with innuendos about erotic...
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“Vanished Kingdoms”
Norman Davies´s History of Half-Forgotten Europe (Allen Lane, RRP£30, 848 pg). Review (c) FT, 2011
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Andrzej Stasiuk: 9
A review of Stasiuk’s great Warsaw city & crime novel “9″ by Tom Tomaszewski (c) THE INDEPENDENT, 2008
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Museum boom in Kraków
“Three museums have recently opened in Kraków that will be of interest to aviation, history and art enthusiasts. The city is rediscovering many of the things that were suppressed or deliberately...
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“The Mill and the Cross”
“In his new film The Mill and the Cross Polish director Lech Majewski explores the life and work of painter Pieter Bruegel.” Interview (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
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The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia Revisited
The brutal March 1943 massacre in the Belorussian village of Khatyn, commemorated in a 1969 memorial, has come to symbolize the horrors of the German occupation. Given the continuing centrality of the...
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“And Europe Will Be Stunned”
“And Europe Will Be Stunned is a deeply stirring and contentious film trilogy by the Dutch-Israeli artist Yael Bartana, soon to open in Britain on its European tour. Each film is enough to disturb;...
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“In the Dark Depths of the Unconscious”
“Emaciated bodies, skeletons, phantom-like apparitions and post-apocalyptic landscapes – all of these are motifs that the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) captured on canvas. All of these...
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“Tragic massacre(s) in Volyn remembered”
“Ukrainians call it a tragedy, for Poles it was a massacre. Between February 1943 and February 1944, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) killed up to 100,000 Poles in Volyn and eastern Galicia,...
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