The paintings, from the workshop of the Flemish master Dieric Bouts, were transferred from the Museo Provincial de Pontevedra in Spain to Gołuchów Castle

Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach

US-based Artistic Freedom Initiative will challenge in EU court the Polish government, saying it is “suppressing free and open artistic expression”

Putin’s international cultural envoy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Poland’s request has no legal grounds

Critics say the sudden dismissal of Jarosław Suchan is the latest attempt by Poland's right-wing government at exercising greater control over cultural institutions

Jaroslaw Suchan will be replaced at Łodz Museum of Art by the artist Andrzej Biernacki

Cultural institutions in the neighbouring country are sending emergency aid and housing refugees

Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month

Jaroslaw Suchan's contract has not been extended by the country's minister of culture

Most recent hire without an open competition is viewed by critics as latest step in government's agenda of placing conservative appointees in control of cultural institutions

The work, consisting of 83 child-size figures in concrete and wood, was made in the late 1990s and has been exhibited on the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

Lawyers and collectors weigh in on new rule that sets a 30-year limit on claims to property that was stolen by Nazis and Communist leaders

Over 1,000 leading Polish arts figures have signed a letter in defence of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw's head Hanna Wróblewska

Some countries are operating a system based on regional coronavirus case numbers while others have gone into full lockdown

Norway Grants pulled the award after Podkarpackie councillors voted for a resolution to "resist the promotion of LGBT ideology"

Graphic work was last shown in the country nearly 30 years ago when women’s rights were also under attack

Only one edition out of a 100 are left as donations flood website

As thousands take to the streets to protest against a near-total ban on abortion, the graphic designer Ola Jasionowska tells us about creating the movement's logo

Open letter—signed by prominent writers Olga Tokarczuk and Margaret Atwood—demands the release of imprisoned activist Malgorzata "Margot" Szutowicz

Spanish art group Democracia have taken over LED screens in the city’s metro

Officials in Poland and Sweden piece together provenance of work by School of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Ahead of Poland's ghost election earlier this month, a group of artists carried a 14-metre letter to parliament

From capped visitor numbers to surgical gloves and temperature checks, here's how cultural institutions are getting ready to leave lockdown

Controversial curator Piotr Bernatowicz has cancelled several 2020 exhibitions and cut funding from progressive art journal at Ujazdowski Castle CCA

Case against Tomasz Kitliński follows row over installation that marked pogrom sites in the city

Expected victory for ruling Law and Justice party raises concerns that minority voices will be silenced as museums increasingly come under state control

The open-air exhibition structure has been designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind

Serious roadblocks remain for claimants looking to reclaim works looted by Nazis

Almost 1,000 people attended banana-eating demonstration outside Warsaw’s National Museum yesterday

Councillors vote down proposal to combine the longstanding Bunkier Sztuki gallery with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków