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Poznań street artist known as Kawu is making his mark with intelligence and humour

Lacking the brooding darkness of many of the world’s street artists, Kawu’s work is defined by its jolly sense of innocence. Kawu

Lacking the brooding darkness of many of the world’s street artists, Kawu’s work is defined by its jolly sense of innocence. Often utilising the surrounding environment, the artist looks to directly interact with nearby physical elements whilst visually transforming otherwise dull corners of the city.

Extraordinarily realistic mural wows Łódź with its vibrancy and gorgeous details

Covering an area of 90 sq/m, it’s not the project’s size that has enthralled the public, but rather its unique and captivating visual style. 

Mystery paintings found hidden in courtroom basement leave historians baffled

Uncovered during routine renovation work in Warsaw’s Regional Court, it is thought that the paintings could be directly related to the building’s wartime or pre-war use.

Extraordinary works of ‘forgotten artist’ Wanda Czełkowska celebrated in new retrospective

Prominent in the Polish avant-garde movement and a member of the Second Krakow Group of artists, Wanda Czełkowska remained artistically independent and preferred to chart her own course in her artistic practice.

How Matejko's paintings serve as a window into Polish history

As a major exhibition marking 2023 the Year of Jan Matejko, TFN looks at the painter’s influence on identity and perception of some of the most iconic moments in Polish history.

Family finds long-lost 19th century masterpiece hanging on their wall

Last seen in public in 1890, the painting by Józef Chełmoński titled Summer Evening had been missing for 133 years, leaving art historians, museum curators, and private collectors believing it had been lost forever.

Priceless painting looted during WWII returned to Poland from Japan

The first war-loss to be repatriated from the Far East, the Madonna with Child painted by the Italian master Alessandro Turchi at the end of the 16th century was stolen by the Germans during the war from the extensive Lubomirski art collection in Przeworsk.

Looted masterpiece returns to Wawel after nearly 80 years

Dating from 1762, and depicting two young painters learning their craft, "The Drawing Lesson" by Jan Maurits Quinkhardt came into the possession of the Wawel Royal Castle before WWII as part of a collection gifted in the will of Krakow Professor Jerzy Mycielski.

Lublin exhibition celebrates intense life of Andrzej Wróblewski, Poland’s most expensive artist

Dying aged just 30, Wróblewski’s ten-year career saw the artist make an impact that resonates to this day.

‘Intimate’ never-before-seen ancient Christian art found in hidden underground rooms

The paintings dating to the fifth or sixth century were found hidden deep within ruins at the Old Dongola archaeological site which was once the capital of the Christian kingdom of Nubia in the early Middle Ages.

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Most expensive coin ever sold in Poland is auctioned for jaw-dropping PLN 3.24 million in just one minute

Considered one of the rarest royal coins in the world, the legendary 50-ducat coin of Zygmunt III Vaza minted at the Crown Mint in Bydgoszcz went for a staggering PLN 3.24 million in the lightning-fast audition at the Raffles Hotel in Warsaw.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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