Like in most Central European countries, Christmas in Poland is a quaint and much-beloved affair. However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, ...
The concept of a Grand Tour was introduced in the 1770s by an Englishman, Richard Lassels, to describe a journey serving to supplement education, develop aesthetic taste, acquire practical skills, ...
In this 19th-century tale of hypnosis, women’s rights and shocking experiments, Culture.pl describes Napoleon Cybulski’s road to discovering adrenaline, the ‘hormone of fight or flight’. Napoleon ...
A calvary is a complex of churches or chapels, usually built on a hill, which symbolises the stations of the Passion of Christ. Typically, they serve to commemorate this key event for Christianity, ...
Zurek with dried porcini, image from 'Fresh from Poland: New Vegetarian Cooking from the Old Country' © MichaÅ‚ Korkosz, 2020, reprinted by permission of the ...
For the first time in the over-120-year history of the Venice Biennale, a Roma artist will represent a national pavilion. In an interview with Culture.pl, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas talks about the ...
In the 17th century, Wojciech Bobowski lived as a captive in the Ottoman Empire. However, he was not idle in his captivity: he created the first ever anthology of traditional Ottoman music and ...
Byli już "piękni dwudziestoletni" i "szpetni czterdziestoletni". Przedstawienie wieńczące obchody 70-lecia Studenckiego ...
Napisany i wyreżyserowany przez Jessego Eisenberga "Prawdziwy ból" to opowieść o rodzinnej przeszÅ‚oÅ›ci, traumie i pamiÄ™ci ...
O koncertach i festiwalach, kompozytorskiej codzienności i europejskiej tożsamości. Kim byłby Paweł Szymański, gdyby nie ...
O życiu muzycznym w Ukrainie, marzeniach repertuarowych i swoich rodzinnych zwyczajach opowiada Yaroslav Shemet, dyrektor ...
PrzyglÄ…damy siÄ™ metaforycznym i zupeÅ‚nie realnym miejscom wspólnym Å‚Ä…czÄ…cym polskÄ… i ukraiÅ„skÄ… literaturÄ™ – a wraz z nimi nasze narody. Jak siÄ™ okazuje, Å‚Ä…czy nas znacznie wiÄ™cej niż tylko poetyckie ...