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How a nun became a counter-cultural icon thanks to her art

With the disco polo music genres, could Poland be making kitsch into an art form?

As Europe moves away from the polluting fossil fuel, many of Poland's coal mines have been converted into art centres.

Concrete giants, unfinished buildings that mar the landscape can be found across Italy. But why are they there? And could they be used for?

A trip to Naples to discover the centuries’ old Feminielli; a unique queer identity. 

Roma culture  is influencing fashion designers such as Spain’s Juana Martin.

Between 1912 and 1948, 150 medals were awarded at the Olympic games for artistic pursuits.

Early cinema perfected the art of special effects with Spanish filmmaker Segundo de Chomón an early pioneer.

How do we live in a world in crisis? Architecture projects that respond to today's problems are emerging, particularly in Spain. 

Kraków has a hidden side, quite literally "underground": its cellars. 

The Polish author Stanislaw Lem created science fiction masterpieces and envisioned the Internet ahead of his time.

Featuring masks, faceless faces, and truncated bodies, Aneta Grzeszykowska creates unsettling imagery.

In a country with a conservative government, Kim Lee was an icon for the Polish queer community.

Does the name Ifi Ude mean anything to you? If not, it's because you're not Polish... or Nigerian.

Keith Haring's mural Once Upon a Time is a celebration of sex and life even as he himself was dying 

Barbie was an influencer before the Internet even existed.

Here's how this lesser-known artist influenced some of the greatest Hollywood fantasy filmmakers.

In the late 1910s, King Alfonso XIII wrote and produced the first pornographic films shot in Spain.

First banned and then reissued, Antifémina is by feminist writer Maria Aurelia Capmany and photographer Colita.

What happened 100 years ago on the plains near the roundabouts of Segovia?