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This beautiful flower-art installation at an old tram stop will make your Daisy!

Dominika Cebula’s installation has changed the tram stop into a little work of art, with countless dried flowers embedded in resign instead of glass. Fabryczna/Dominika Cebula/Facebook

The project by local arts student Dominika Cebula celebrates the significance of flowers in culture and “the contrast between colourful flowers and a concrete city.”

It’s back! Zaleski’s 19th century oil painting of Milan Cathedral returns after disappearing during Warsaw Uprising

The oil on canvas by one of Poland’s most eminent urban landscape painters shows the vast knave and impressive vaulting inside Milan’s cathedral, which is the largest church in Italy, the third largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world.

Incredible giant eco-statues made of sand appear in Poznań

Because the sand will soon be blown away by the wind it was chosen especially to present some of the worlds most endangered species.

Women of the revolution: Solidarity heroes remembered in series of stunning murals

Painted onto pillars beneath the Gdańsk Strzyża station, the mural is a tribute to all the women who fought for a free Poland during communism and acts as a reminder of their role in the historic events that began in Pomerania in August 1980, and then spilled across the whole country.

Theft, murder, stolen art and spies: Sleuth stumbles upon clue in 45-year-old mystery which could lead to valuable stolen painting

Two days after the discovery of the 1974 theft of ‘Woman Carrying Embers’ by Pieter Brueghel II from the National Museum of Gdańsk, a local customs officer who claimed to have information was kidnapped, taken to a cemetery, doused in petrol and set ablaze. The artwork has remained missing ever since, until now…

Meet the Polish Andy Warhol - Urszula Kaminska

An emotional walk in a war cemetery flipped Urszula’s life around. She spurned a successful business career to try her hand at painting. Since then she’s become well known for her flamboyant paintings of famous people, earning praise from no less than one of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs, Richard Branson.

FestivALT alternative Jewish festival to open in Krakow in June

The third FestivALT festival featuring independent presentations of Jewish art will run from June 21 to 30 in the southern Polish city of Krakow. Shows, concerts, happenings and unconventional sights are all planned in the former Jewish quarter of Kazimierz.

National Museum in Kraków draws huge interest during Night of Museums

Close to 30,000 people visited the National Museum in Kraków, southern Poland, on Friday during this year’s Night of Museums. The longest queues lined up in front of main building of the museum to get a chance to see Leonard da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine'.

Artist creates incredible watercolours of Warsaw as you’ve never seen it before

Artist uses the past and present to reimagine Warsaw’s 19th century charm.

Gold train hunter strikes GOLD with discovery of priceless 500-year-old renaissance wall art

The discovery by Piotr Koper at a palace in the village of Struga is one of the most valuable in the region as nowhere have so many 16th-century paintings survived intact.

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