Arts

Life in the fast lane: the incredible life and times of Józef Czapski

Józef Czapski was born into a Polish aristocratic family on April 3, 1896 in Prague, and was given the full name of Józef Maria Emeryk Franciszek Ignacy Hutten-Czapski family. He was the son of Count Jerzy Czapski and Józefa née von Thun-Hohenstein. PAP

TFN’s Jacek Borowski looks back on the amazing life of aristocrat, art connoisseur, modernist painter and solider Józef Czapski.

True to her word: Kulczyk’s eagerly awaited mountain-top art museum opens to the public with ‘feminist’ exhibition

Talking to TFN in August last year, museum owner Grażyna Kulczyk said: “Artists, movements and ideas that to date have been marginalised or left outside of the canon will move centre stage and be given new opportunities to be heard. In particular, though not exclusively, female artists will be offered new contexts and positions.”

Here today, gone tomorrow: new exhibition shows how statues went in out of political fashion

They were built to last for centuries but instead many statues soon found themselves on the artistic scrapheap owing to a change in politics.

Mural that ‘changes with the seasons’ appears in honour of singing icon Kora

The piece of art is one of a four murals found across Poland, created to honour four pioneering Polish women.

Art on the rocks: sculptors get to grips with ice in international competition

Ice sculptors from around the world descended on Poland to do what they do best.

Conan the Barbarian’s seafaring sidekick brought to life by Polish artist in new comic series

Marvel comics launches a new superhero in the form of Belit, a 'mad pirate queen with a killer body and a command of the high seas.'

Polish artist's depiction of the liberation of Breda wins competition

An artwork project by Wroclaw (southern Poland) resident Tomasz Tomaszewski has won a competition for a sculpture or installation commemorating the liberation of Breda, the Netherlands, by the 1st Armored Division lead by General Stanisław Maczek in 1944.

From Brazil to herring: famed Brazilian avant-garde art reflects on her Polish-Jewish heritage

TFN’s Jacek Borowski tracks down the Polish-Jewish roots of the internationally acclaimed Brazilian visual artist 85-year-old Anna Bella Geiger.

The way we used to live: Fascinating exhibition shows off design exhibits of bygone times

A new permanent exhibition at the Warsaw National Museum shows off some of the most prevalent designs in Polish history. From the interwar folk design movement and influential Kraków workshops through the post-war reconstruction period, social realism and post-1956 modernism, the Gallery of Polish Design exhibition embraces the development and dynamism of Polish art and design. 

Going, going, gone! Fangor painting smashes records at Warsaw auction

The PLN 4.72 million was also the largest amount paid for a piece of contemporary Polish art.

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