Polish performance artist Rafal Betlejewski paints graffiti saying ‘I Miss You Jew’ in remembrance of the 3,000,000 Polish Jews wiped out during the Holocaust. He also invites Polish residents of former Jewish communities to be photographed next to an empty chair to symbolise their vanished neighbours. Betlejewski says the response to his art project is enormous. >>
New discoveries of unconventional natural gas deposits may allow Poland to become independent of Russian supplies in the near future and even to become a gas exporter. >>
A mural on the Warsaw underground featuring risqué scenes involving inflatable sheep is stirring controversy between those who believe artistic expression should be free and those with a more traditional outlook. >>
The Teatrum Gedanense Foundation has launched the reconstruction of a Shakespearean theatre which existed in the multicultural city of Gdansk in Elizabethan times. >>
A series of concerts featuring top world pianists, two high-profile festivals, a new Chopin museum in Warsaw and a 3D animated film devoted to the composer’s music and featuring the Chinese star pianist Lang Lang are just some attractions scheduled during Chopin Year 2010. >>
The once depressed central Polish city of Lodz is experiencing something of revival, also with the help of American filmmaker David Lynch who has fallen in love with it. >>
In 2009 Poland emerged as Europe’s only economy to show positive growth. Professor Stanislaw Gomulka, Chief Economist of the Business Center Club does some crystal ball gazing to examine prospects for 2010. >>