WARSAW, POLAND (AP).- Britain says it is donating 2.1 million pounds ($3.4 million) to a fund that will help preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site over the coming decades. British officials announced the decision for the donation on Thursday. G…
Exhibition of Polish Design 1955-1968 from the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
WARSAW.- This pioneering exhibition of ca 180 objects from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, featuring the most important examples of Polish design, rarely seen in the West, will explore the significance of the objects of everyday use in…
Two Paintings Seized in NY Stolen by Nazis in Poland
NEW YORK (AP).- U.S. authorities say they’ve seized two paintings in New York that were stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, by the Nazis during World War II. The paintings by 19th-century Polish artist Julian Falat were seized last Wedn…
Germany Announced It will Give $80 Million in the Next Year to Fix Auschwitz Memorial
WARSAW, POLAND (AP).- Germany pledged Wednesday to pay euro60 million ($80 million) over the next year into a fund for Auschwitz-Birkenau to preserve the barracks, gas chambers and other evidence of Nazi crimes at the former death camp, some of which a…
Germany Announced It will Give $80 Million in the Next Year to Fix Auschwitz Memorial
WARSAW, POLAND (AP).- Germany pledged Wednesday to pay euro60 million ($80 million) over the next year into a fund for Auschwitz-Birkenau to preserve the barracks, gas chambers and other evidence of Nazi crimes at the former death camp, some of which a…
Auschwitz Memorial Acquires Nazi Medical Devices
WARSAW (AP).- The Auschwitz memorial in Poland says it has obtained around 150 medical instruments believed to have been used by the Nazis in experiments on the death camp inmates. Memorial spokesman Bartosz Bartyzel said Thursday the gynecological an…
Artpace San Antonio Unveils 10.2 International Artists-in-Residence Projects
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio unveiled its 10.2 International Artist-in-Residence projects. Guest curator Patrick Charpenel, independent curator from Mexico City, presented new works by Monika Sosnowska (Warsaw, Poland), Corey McCorkle (New Yor…