Černý criticises fake interview in Mladá fronta Dnes

Czech artist David Černý has criticised the Czech daily Mladá fronta Dnes for a hoax interview the daily ran in its Saturday edition, aimed, its editor-in-chief said, at testing Mr Černý’s sense of humour. The fake interview came in response to the artist’s recent duping of Czech officials and members of the public, that his controversial piece Entropa was the work of different European artists. It was only after it was unveiled in Brussels that it came to light that Entropa - which parodies European stereotypes - was largely Mr Černý’s alone. Saturday’s Mladá fronta Dnes made no effort to hide its interview was fake, apologising at the end of the article. The artist responded by suggesting there is a difference between how far a newspaper could go, saying it wasn’t the same as art.