Culture
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‘Invisible synagogues’: Czech artist captures blank spaces where Jewish houses of prayer once stood
Behind every lost Czech synagogue is a story. Photographer Štěpán Bartoš has set out to document the fate of them all through his Invisible Synagogues project.
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2021 Czech Nightingale winners
This year’s Czech Nightingales saw Ewa Farna win her first ever Nightingale award for best female singer, with the best male signer award going to Marek Ztracený.
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Pilsen Museum of Puppets maps the rich history of the Czech puppetry tradition
The west Bohemian town of Pilsen is known around the world for its beer, but it is also the cradle of Czech puppetry.
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Replica, copy, imitation, forgery? National Gallery in Prague invites visitors to find the fakes
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness,” the great Irish poet/playwright Oscar Wilde once quipped. But what about exact copies?
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Writer Bohumil Hrabal’s holiday home to be turned into exhibition space
The holiday home of the late Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal in Kersko, just 30 kilometres east of Prague, could soon be turned into an exhibition space.
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Leoš Janáček's opera Katya Kabanova premiered 100 years ago
A century has passed since the world premiere of Leoš Janáček's opera Katya Kabanova, which was first performed in Brno on November 23, 1921.
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Museum in Jablonec tells story of world-renowned Bohemian crystal glass and jewelry
The Museum of Glass and Jewelry in Jablonec nad Nisou traces the history of Bohemian glass making over seven centuries.
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EP17: Designers Herrmann & Coufal
Duo Herrmann & Coufal, who like to involve the customer in the manufacture of their products, are the most recent winners of the Czech Grand Designer of the Year award.
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Havel to the Café! New bust to be unveiled on Velvet Revolution anniversary
A bust of Václav Havel will be unveiled on Wednesday – the anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution – at Prague’s Café Slavia, one of his old haunts.
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One-of-a-kind 1960s locomotive heads for National Technical Museum
A unique locomotive created in the 1960s set off at the weekend from Plzeň station for Chomutov, where it will join the collection of the National Technical Museum.
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Vocal great Marie Rottrová turns 80
The great Czech signer Marie Rottrová, whose career has spanned six decades, turned 80 on 13 November.
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UK comic artist Rachael Smith on her Prague residency and the benefits of keeping diary comics
Rachael Smith is a young, comic artist from the UK, who has just undertaken a three-week residency programme in Prague.
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