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'No chance for art institutions': fears for freedom of speech as populist party set to win Polish elections
Expected victory for ruling Law and Justice party raises concerns that minority voices will be silenced as museums increasingly come under state control
'Life in the shadow of a death world': new Holocaust installation shines a light on Auschwitz survivors' stories
The open-air exhibition structure has been designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind
Polish government must stop dragging its heels on restitution
Serious roadblocks remain for claimants looking to reclaim works looted by Nazis
Video of Polish artist Natalia LL eating a banana temporarily goes back on show after protests over museum’s ‘censorship’
Almost 1,000 people attended banana-eating demonstration outside Warsaw’s National Museum yesterday
Krakow City Council rejects mayor’s plan to merge the city’s two leading contemporary art spaces
Councillors vote down proposal to combine the longstanding Bunkier Sztuki gallery with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków
Collector's Eye: Grazyna Kulczyk
The Polish art lover on her fascination with female artists and how she wishes she could have been seated at Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
Polish art world calls on national museum to stage 'major international show' against fascism
An open letter to Krakow institution asks for exhibition to counter rise of the right in Poland
Interview with Wilhelm Sasnal: Home is where the art is
Wilhelm Sasnal on how his native Poland provides the inspiration for his work on canvas and celluloid
Controversial Polish director forced to step down
After one year in charge art historian leaves national museum having lost vote of confidence
Italian to run Warsaw’s Centre for Contemporary Art
Poland appoints first foreign museum director
Oligarch Marek Roefler opens museum in Warsaw
Collector shows off Polish art with French accent
Poland’s National Museum champions gay rights: critics up in arms
“Ars Homo Erotica” exhibition runs 11 June to 5 Septmber
Foreign minister calls for Warsaw’s Palace of Culture to be demolished
Sikorski says that it would be better to have a park in its place
My road to Art Basel 2009: Interview with Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade on fleeing Poland, working for other artists and winning prizes
New competition for Warsaw museum architect
Top practitioners had been excluded due to “Kafka-esque” rules
Police seize medieval casket from V&A due to Nazi loot claims
The Czartoryski family in Poland, who lost much of their art during the war, say it belongs to them
Books: The view from eastern Europe on restitution
These essays emanate from a series of Polish conferences
Milwaukee Art Museum exhibits Leonardo da Vinci and the splendour of Poland
A new show highlights the oft-forgot historical art collections of Poland
Curator barred from Polish project to build contemporary art museum
Politics, again, involve Anda Rottenberg
Christie's remove volumes from October sale to investigate links to Jagiellonian Library theft
Of the fifty one books that were stolen, nineteen have been recovered
Return of 1939 World Fair art demanded
A relation of the Polish painter Tadeusz Pruszkowski, who died in 1942, has asked Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, to hand over seven Polish paintings and four tapestries, but the Jesuit Institution says the objects properly belong to it
Search continues for missing Raphael painting
Stolen in 1945 from a Polish prince’s museum, it is now thought to be in Bavaria
The point of no return - Europe climbs on the restitution bandwagon
But the process has stalled as far as large-scale restitution between Russia and Germany is concerned
Restitution in Poland: Count recovers Leonardo’s “Lady with the Ermine” from the Communists and donates it to a foundation
Czartoryski Museum and Library converted into foundation with advice from London art dealer, Andrew Ciechanowiecki
Polish museums to sell military equipment preserved in bogs
They have already dug out several dozen armoured cars, field-guns, transporters and other vehicles