Culture
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Kupka exhibition opens at Prague’s National Gallery
An exhibition of work by the major Czech modernist painter František Kupka has just got underway at the National Gallery in Prague. Entitled František Kupka 1871–1957, it…
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Chinaski – hit band gearing up for autumn tour
The Czech pop-rock group Chinaski formed way back in the late 1980s and though they didn’t find a broad audience until the mid-2000s, they have consistently been one of…
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Popular Czech band Lucie makes a comeback
After a pause of 16 years, one of the most popular Czech bands, Lucie, is releasing a new album. The band, which enjoyed the biggest popularity in the 1990s, is also…
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Police crack down on drug traffic ahead of Hip Hop Kemp festival
Hip Hop Kemp, the largest music festival of the genre in Central and Eastern Europe officially kicks off on Thursday night at the massive open-air site Festivalpark on the…
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British author Nigel Peace publishes powerful love-story set against the backdrop of 1968 invasion
British author Nigel Peace has just published a powerful love story set against the background of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact. The novel is…
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‘Occupation 1968’ documents invasion, aftermath from soldiers’ viewpoint
The omnibus documentary film ‘Occupation 1968’ offers a rare glimpse into the invasion of Czechoslovakia from the perspective of common Warsaw Pact soldiers, as well as…
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Jan Palach’s act was in part directed at future generations, says director of new film
Among many events held in connection with the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia was the premiere of a new film about Jan Palach. The student famously took…
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A Prayer for Marta crowns huge concert marking invasion anniversary
The biggest public event marking the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia was a concert that filled Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Tuesday evening. The…
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The music of 1968
What were some of the biggest hits and key songs of 1968, the year Czechoslovakia’s dreams of a freer society were crushed?
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Artist teams up with Doctors Without Borders to take on demon diseases
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Czech Republic has joined forces with artist Toy_Box to launch a new exhibition on Prague’s Artwall Gallery. I visited the opening in Letná…
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Leoš Janáček, one of the best-known Czech composers
Ninety years ago to this day, on the 12th of August, 1928, Leoš Janáček, one of the most significant Czech composers, died in a hospital in Ostrava. He was brought there…
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Czech short-wave radio expert Oldřich Číp dies at 87
Oldřich Číp, a world renowned expert on short-wave radio has died at the age of 87. He was associated with radio since childhood - first as an amateur radio hobbyist and…
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