A unique tribute from David Bowie’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie’s blessing.In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbr...
Książka Marii Krzysztofa Byrskiego – wybitnego znawcy Indii, byłego ambasadora RP w tym kraju, wieloletniego wykładowcy Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz Uniwersytetu im. Jawaharlala Nehru w De...
Simon “Woody” Wood, founder and editor-in-chief of Sneaker Freaker magazine, has spent the last two decades analyzing the global cult of footwear fanatics. That experience directly insp...
Calling All EC Fan-Addicts!A history of the world’s most notorious comicsIn 1947, Bill Gaines inherited EC Comics, a new venture founded by his legendary father M. C. Gaines...
Autorzy omawiają najważniejsze powieści Kurta Vonneguta. Wskazują te aspekty jego twórczości, które piętnaście lat po śmierci pisarza zyskują na znaczeniu w obliczu współczesny...
Temples of KnowledgeExceptional access to the world’s illustrious librariesFrom the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library i...
The sky’s the limit with 50 ingenious tree houses around the worldThe idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity. In t...
„Dobry bóg tkwi w szczegółach” – tak brzmią słynne słowa Warburga, można je potraktować jako myśl przewodnią książki Katii Mazzucco o projekcie Atlasu Mnemosyne &nda...
When traditional craft met blossoming ModernismPoets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, wal...
Under the burning Tuscan sun roll marvelous hills, vineyards, and olive groves-all postcard-perfect landscapes nestling centuries-old towns, rural villas, and contadino farmhouses. We've tracked do...
The making of the Eiffel Tower“The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn&rsq...
Abstract pioneerHarmonies in red, yellow, and blueA key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading a...
When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist’s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in ...
With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (1893–1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ...
Absurdity against the establishmentEmerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the m...
The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages to the 1950sMagic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics ...
Bycie Ukraińcem z Polski to ciągłe odnajdywanie nici i splotów łączących mnie z historią, kulturą i tradycją mojej małej ojczyzny. To też przyjmowanie aktywnej postawy w poszukiwaniu tych sp...
The vivid history of the capital of love and photographyA city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography.It was on the banks of...
XV-wieczna kronika Leoncjusza Machierasa "Wykład o słodkiej ziemi Cypru «Cronaca», to jest Kroniką, zwany" to bez wątpienia najwybitniejsze dzieło kronikarstwa greckiego średn...