Poland
country
Bank Pekao and the Aleph Zero platform collaborate to keep secure data by tokenising the digitised records of important works of art
The museum is preparing to open a major new building in the heart of the Polish capital
Piotr Bernatowicz was selected by Poland's former Law and Justice government
The tiles decorated the bathing pavilion of Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw before they disappeared during the Second World War
Open Group collective has shifted focus to neighbouring Ukraine after Ignacy Czwartos is deselected
Ignacy Czwartos will present 15 paintings in an exhibition entitled Polonia Uncensored—close to the Giardini site
Donald Tusk’s coalition is revoking cultural leadership appointments made by the previous right-wing regime—but is cancelling Poland’s Venice Biennale artist a step too far?
Ignacy Czwartos was chosen to represent Poland but his exhibition concept has been ditched by the new government
After eight years of the right-wing PiS-led government, breaking down the silos in the country's arts sector will be key
The trio are part of a larger group of critics arguing that the exhibition follows the narrative of the current Law and Justice (PiS) government's “right-wing, martyrdom-oriented cultural policy”
The Walker Art Center's show brings together work by nearly 100 artists living under communist rule
Poles voted in record numbers on the weekend, paving the way for the opposition parties led by Donald Tusk to form a coalition government
Opposition parties, not government, behind latest sacking of cultural leader
Leaders of foreign museums have joined Polish colleagues in condemning the removal of Joanna Wasilewska from her role at Warsaw’s Asia and Pacific Museum
The paintings, from the workshop of the Flemish master Dieric Bouts, were transferred from the Museo Provincial de Pontevedra in Spain to Gołuchów Castle
Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach
US-based Artistic Freedom Initiative will challenge in EU court the Polish government, saying it is “suppressing free and open artistic expression”
Putin’s international cultural envoy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Poland’s request has no legal grounds
Critics say the sudden dismissal of Jarosław Suchan is the latest attempt by Poland's right-wing government at exercising greater control over cultural institutions
Jaroslaw Suchan will be replaced at Łodz Museum of Art by the artist Andrzej Biernacki
Cultural institutions in the neighbouring country are sending emergency aid and housing refugees
Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month
Jaroslaw Suchan's contract has not been extended by the country's minister of culture
Most recent hire without an open competition is viewed by critics as latest step in government's agenda of placing conservative appointees in control of cultural institutions
The work, consisting of 83 child-size figures in concrete and wood, was made in the late 1990s and has been exhibited on the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid
Lawyers and collectors weigh in on new rule that sets a 30-year limit on claims to property that was stolen by Nazis and Communist leaders
Over 1,000 leading Polish arts figures have signed a letter in defence of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw's head Hanna Wróblewska
Some countries are operating a system based on regional coronavirus case numbers while others have gone into full lockdown
Norway Grants pulled the award after Podkarpackie councillors voted for a resolution to "resist the promotion of LGBT ideology"
Graphic work was last shown in the country nearly 30 years ago when women’s rights were also under attack