Word: piotr
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After the collapse of communism, Poland, like most other former Soviet bloc countries, took to "imported" fast food - burgers, pizza, kebabs - with a hunger stoked by decades of deprivation. Now celebrity chefs Robert Maklowicz and Maciej Kuron - and food critics like Piotr Bikont - are spearheading a return to traditional Polish cookery...
...desk in the Semitic Museum, Professor of Assyriology Piotr Steinkeller shuffles papers as he describes how it felt to hear that the National Museum in Baghdad had been looted. He says that at first, he couldn’t believe that such a collection had been lost...
...Piotr Dumala, a film animator (VES 156br, “Intermediate Animation Studio” and 156cr, “Animation Workshop”), has a distinct drawing style that consists of careful, exquisite crosshatching. On the far wall of the space is a collection of his works, which come in all sizes, each carefully framed. Some are done in charcoal, pen and ink or pencil (only a few in color), while others look like etchings...
...eyes, a line of shadowy people walking under a solitary rain cloud, clocks embedded in the graves in a cemetery—and the Kafkaesque: Indeed, one of Dumala’s fake film “advertisements” proclaims “Miniature Film Studio Presents a Piotr Dumala Film: Franz Kafka.” All of the figures in Dumala’s drawings display a unique, fascinating dynamism and animation, like actors captured in motion within film stills...
...Looking for Langston,” Hauptman’s “Self-Portrait,” and Piotr Dumala’s drawings are the jewels of a show lacking a synthesis of its many disparate components...