A two-minute piece must last for several minutes or several hours – Filip Lech talks to the composer of film, television and ...

There is a building everybody who has visited Warsaw remembers. It has been a bone of contention for fifty years and still ...

An economist by education, Sapkowski worked in foreign trade from 1972-1994. He is a five-time winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, the most important honour for fantasy writers in Poland. He ...

‘Portet Henryka Sienkiewicz’ (Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Portrait) by Kazimierz Mordasewicz, 1899, photo: National Museum in Warsaw The son of an impoverished landowner, Sienkiewicz attended a Warsaw ...

In the 19th century, the Polish city of Łódź grew from a tiny farming town into a bustling textile industry metropolis – at a rate unseen anywhere else in Europe at the time. The cosmopolitan city was ...

The plot of The Invincible is loosely related to Lem's novel of the same name – the creators took the world of the planet ...

The colourful Polish tradition of making ‘pisanki’, or Easter eggs, is more or less a thousand years old. There are dozens of regional varieties, and the most outstanding specimens are exhibited in ...

In May 2015, the University of Cambridge unveiled a strange white structure shaped like a futuristic Christmas tree. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the Sierpiński triangle, a type of ...

Dramatic and ornamental – but with a distinctly Sarmatian flair – the baroque became a prominent style in Polish culture ...

The IA music collective, rooted in experimental sound and visual design, explores Japan’s underground music scene. Founded by ...

In the Middle Ages, Polish rulers often had somewhat surprising nicknames. You’d find rulers known as Tanglefoot, ...