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Polish bank works with blockchain company and an Arctic vault to safeguard country's artistic heritage
Bank Pekao and the Aleph Zero platform collaborate to keep secure data by tokenising the digitised records of important works of art
After 20 years without a permanent home, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art will open this month
The museum is preparing to open a major new building in the heart of the Polish capital
Right-wing director of Warsaw contemporary art centre ousted by culture minister
Piotr Bernatowicz was selected by Poland's former Law and Justice government
Polish museum receives anonymous package containing lost 17th-century tiles
The tiles decorated the bathing pavilion of Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw before they disappeared during the Second World War
All change at the Venice Biennale’s Polish pavilion after initial artist is ousted by new, centrist government
Open Group collective has shifted focus to neighbouring Ukraine after Ignacy Czwartos is deselected
Rejected Polish Venice Biennale artist to stage own show near national pavilion
Ignacy Czwartos will present 15 paintings in an exhibition entitled Polonia Uncensored—close to the Giardini site
How Poland’s new government has begun shaking up the arts sector
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?
Polish pavilion selection at Venice Biennale gets political as rejected artist cries censorship
Ignacy Czwartos was chosen to represent Poland but his exhibition concept has been ditched by the new government
A change of regime in Poland presents challenges and opportunities for the culture sector
After eight years of the right-wing PiS-led government, breaking down the silos in the country's arts sector will be key
Three members of jury that voted on Poland's 2024 Venice Biennale pavilion show hit out at plans
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”
US exhibition to reveal audacity and experimentation of Eastern Bloc artists
The Walker Art Center's show brings together work by nearly 100 artists living under communist rule
Poland's arts community cautiously optimistic as right-wing ruling party fails to win majority
Poles voted in record numbers on the weekend, paving the way for the opposition parties led by Donald Tusk to form a coalition government
Museums in line of fire ahead of Polish election
Opposition parties, not government, behind latest sacking of cultural leader
International outcry at dismissal of prominent Polish museum director
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
Virgin Mary and Christ diptych, stolen during Second World War, returned to Poland
The paintings, from the workshop of the Flemish master Dieric Bouts, were transferred from the Museo Provincial de Pontevedra in Spain to Gołuchów Castle
Poland says Kandinsky painting sold at Berlin auction house was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw
Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach
Arts group takes on Polish government over political interference in cultural institutions
US-based Artistic Freedom Initiative will challenge in EU court the Polish government, saying it is “suppressing free and open artistic expression”
Poland demands Russia return seven paintings it claims were looted during Second World War
Putin’s international cultural envoy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Poland’s request has no legal grounds
‘A shock to the community worldwide’: directors of Tate, Guggenheim and MoMA condemn ousting of Polish museum head
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
Museum ethics body blasts dismissal of Polish museum director
Jaroslaw Suchan will be replaced at Łodz Museum of Art by the artist Andrzej Biernacki
How Poland's museum community is stepping up to support Ukrainian colleagues
Cultural institutions in the neighbouring country are sending emergency aid and housing refugees
Rubens could become most expensive work of art ever sold in Poland
Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month
Right-wing takeover of Poland's museums continues as Museum of Art in Łodz is latest cultural institution facing change of leadership
Jaroslaw Suchan's contract has not been extended by the country's minister of culture
Shock as Janusz Janowski appointed new director of Poland’s leading Zacheta National Gallery of Art by right-wing culture minister
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
Magdalena Abakanowicz's haunting installation 'Bambini' expected to sell for up to $3.6m at auction in Poland
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
‘Slap in the face’: Poland passes law effectively blocking Holocaust-era art restitutions
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
Poland’s right-wing government dismisses director of leading contemporary art museum in latest blow to cultural scene
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
Museums in Poland and Germany forced to close—again—as third pandemic wave hits Europe
Some countries are operating a system based on regional coronavirus case numbers while others have gone into full lockdown
Polish region loses €1.65m European heritage grant after declaring itself 'LGBT-free zone'
Norway Grants pulled the award after Podkarpackie councillors voted for a resolution to "resist the promotion of LGBT ideology"
Barbara Kruger’s 'Your Body is a Battleground' poster appears in Poland as protests flare up over abortion ban
Graphic work was last shown in the country nearly 30 years ago when women’s rights were also under attack