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' © Michał 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 ...

Napisany i wyreżyserowany przez Jessego Eisenberga "Prawdziwy ból" to opowieść o rodzinnej przeszłości, traumie i pamięci ...

Ktoś mógłby powiedzieć, że "Pan Żarówka" to opowieść autobiograficzna, a kto inny, że duszna, surrealistyczna baśń – i każdy ...

Rozmowa z Michałem "Nihilem" Kuźniakiem i Dominikiem Gacem, twórcami słuchowiska "Dziady", opartego na nagraniach ...

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 ...