Kill It and Leave This Town is available for streaming between November 25 and December 8, 2020, for a rental price of $12 at vimeo.com. Co-presented by Anthology Film Archives, the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and Outsider Pictures, and representing its North American premiere run, this two-week virtual engagement will be supplemented by a…
Category: Poland
INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT — Anežka Kašpárková
Kasparkova, a grandmother from the Czech village of Louka, in South Moravia. The adorable artist is 91 and still spends most of her free time doing what she likes most – hand-painting her neighbors’ houses with traditional motifs. Agnes Kasparkova retired from her work in agriculture over 30…
LOVING VINCENT, THE FILM
Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully painted feature film produced by Oscar-winning studios Breakthru Films and Trademark Films. This biographical , animated film tells the story of painter Vincent van Gogh. The film was written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman. It is also being produced by Hugh Welchman and Sean Bobbitt of BreakThru Films and Ivan…
POST BY THE ARTIST OLEK
NEW WORKS RECENTLY UNVEILED IN POLAND BY THE ARTIST OLEK On November 8, 2016, a day after the U.S. Presidential election, we started seeing increasing signs of Neo-Nazism throughout the United State of America, including New York City. I have seen a swastika carved on a New York City subway seat and people reading about…
Zofia Stryjeńska, “Bożki słowiańskie”, 1918 (kolejne teki 1922, 1934)
SLAVIC IDOLS Paulina Olowska revisits the work of Zofia Stryjeńska—exploring the visionary Polish artist’s notion of ballet as a “wreath of ceremonies,” and designing costumes after her 1918 painting series Bożki słowiańskie (Slavic Deities) that was based on Slavic folklore and mythology. Katy Pyle, Artistic Director of theBallez, will be working…