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Wacław Jędrzejczak – Polish identity
It was that fateful summer, which was not the same as all summers, when peace in Europe and our family’s peace were about to be shattered. Towards the end of August 1939 it was certain […]
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Barry Sheehy – No Greater Allies
The Poles and Canada . Jan Zurakowski A very rare photograph of the original Avro Arrow CF 105, number 201, hangs on the wall of the community center at St Mary’s Polish Church on Whitney […]
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Mariusz Wesolowski – ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD
Molly Stone, illustration to William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming”. . I spent the last few weeks laboring upon a commentary on the recent events under the working title “Suicide by Islam”. It began thus: […]
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Mariusz Wesolowski – MURDER, LIBERAL STYLE
January 26th, 2017: During a German television program, Josef Joffe – the editor and publisher of the liberal newspaper Die Zeit – opined that ‘murder in the White House’ could be a way to solve […]
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Mariusz Wesolowski – TARTUFFES WITH RED STARS, OR THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF THE LEFT
On January 3rd, 2017, in Chicago, Ill., four black young people – Brittany Covington, 18, her sister Tanisha Covington, 24, Tesfaye Cooper, 18, and Jordan Hill, 18 – brought home their white, mentally disabled schoolmate, […]
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Mariusz Wesolowski – THE FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF OMENS
A bolt of lightning strikes St. Peter’s basilica in the Vatican City on October 7th, 2016 On the evening of June 23rd, 1812, Emperor Napoleon – disguised as a Polish lancer – was reconnoitering […]
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Edward Hopper – Painter of alienation
For many years I have been interested in the phenomenon of psychological alienation that haunts our modern world. I think it found its clearest expression in the theories of the German-American psychologist, Erich Fromm, who […]
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Ewan Whyte – Guiraut Riquier: The Last Troubadour
Guiraut Riquier: The Last Troubadour How bleak it must have been the long dangerous journeys between towns and courts which gradually lost interest in your elegant old-fashioned art. Influenced from the east but […]
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GEORGE BUYTENDORP – Abandoned Homestand
One Picture Gallery – George Buytendorp (1923 – 2014), Abandoned Homestand https://aleksanderrybczynski.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/abandoned-homestand.m4v . Born in the Netherlands in 1923, George Buytendorp studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Related Sciences in The Hague. He […]
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Don Drews – Bachinski’s Reclining Woman Bronze
Walter Bachinski’s 1977/8 bronze contrasts images of a female nude. He juxtaposes serene repose with disturbing, violent disfigurement. What multifaceted associations for the artist and the audience? Don Drews