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Snapper tours whole country to capture over 500 patriotic murals

Photographer Wojciech Wilczyk toured the country in search of the murals. Wojciech Wilczyk

Photographer Wojciech Wilczyk, whose incredible work will be published in a 512-page book entitled “Słownik polsko-polski”, found the incredible murals depicting Polish heroes in virtually every city.

Picasso’s ‘Mermaid’ returns to apartment wall 66 years after being washed off

During a visit to Warsaw in 1948, Picasso famously drew a mermaid – the symbol of Warsaw - on the wall of an apartment. A few years later, the owner got rid of it and the drawing was feared lost forever. Until now…

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.

Totally wall-some: with its roots in street art, one Warsaw company has taken the ad world by storm with its outrageous murals

Championing an original and “hand crafted” approach to advertising, the Good Looking Studio is re-writing the rule book.

The big picture, quite literally! Warsaw artist transforms city look with gorgeous huge murals

Already widely celebrated for his surreal watercolours of Polish cities, acclaimed artist Tytus Brzozowski has seen his work given the XXL treatment with the unveiling of a stunning 18-metre tall mural running along the side of a building housing the capital’s Municipal Roads Authority.

The street artist with a PhD whose work is covering the globe

Mariusz Waras broke the stereotype of a street artist being just a step away from a vandal by obtaining his PhD in 2013 and running the Street Art Studio at the Academy of Art in Szczecin’s Faculty of Painting and New Media.

Wall inspiring: the duo behind some of Poland’s most impressive, and largest street art

The work by Etam Cru can been seen around the world, and has taken Polish street art to a new level.

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.

Singing In The Rain: a musical house in Poznań spotlights the relationship between art and gentrification

As art and all things fashionable flourish in Poznań’s Śródka district, do they come at the cost of the historic area’s soul?

It’s a world record! After six years artist’s work FINALLY recognised as being a record breaker

It was only at the end of 2018 that the Guinness Book of Records confirmed that Sebastian Krawczak’s opus magnus was exactly 16 cm2 larger than the previous record holder, making it the largest pencil mural in the world.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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