Culture
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Culture sector governed by uncertainty as government outlines timetable
The Czech Republic’s culture sector has been responding to the government’s freshly announced plans to slowly get the country’s economy moving again. Booksellers say they…
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The genius of Santini
He was a phenomenal architect and intellectual. Jan Blažej Santini Aichel (usually known just as Santini) lived in the 17th and early18th century. Born to an Italian…
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Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Easter Mass
Jan Dismas Zelenka, (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745) dubbed the “Czech Bach”, is one of the most significant Baroque composers. Yet his music was largely forgotten…
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Czech Television preparing new sitcom about coronavirus lockdown
“One house, three generations and a global pandemic,” that’s the focus of a new six-episode sitcom currently being prepared by Czech Television, entitled ‘Love in the Time…
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Czech culture in the time of coronavirus: cathedral offers virtual reality tour, Prague Spring to…
Obliged to close their doors to the public during the coronavirus pandemic, a wide range of Czech cultural, historical and religious institutions have begun offering an…
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Bedřich Smetana’s Vltava marks 145 years since its premiere
The first public performance of Vltava, one of the best known pieces by Bedřich Smetana, took place 145 years ago today. The famous composition, also known by its English…
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Non-existent festival to support struggling culture venues
Prague City Council, in cooperation with ticket portal GoOut, have launched a new initiative to support theatres, concert halls, clubs and other venues closed due to the…
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Petra Valentová: I like how many people are reacting to the current situation – with responsibility…
Petra Valentová is a Czech-born, New York-based conceptual and multimedia artist whose work frequently explores questions of identity. With her adopted city greatly…
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Czech Film Commissioner: foreign productions will return, development remains strong
The Czech film industry expects to see a 75 percent drop in production by year’s end due to the coronavirus pandemic. The cinemas are closed, the production of foreign…
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“Paralysed” Radio Orchestra reaching audiences through streamed concerts
Impacted like so many others by coronavirus-related restrictions, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra has found a new way to reach audiences. It is relaying live video…
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Artist and musician Tom Kotik: When we're able to meet again, we can lose ourselves in composing…
Tom Kotik is an artist and curator whose work often explores the intersection of sound and vision, as well as a musician with the band Sportsman’s Paradise. As New York…
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War with the Newts: Karel Čapek’s prescient, dystopian magnum opus
Karel Čapek’s last major novel, War with the Newts, is considered a satirical dystopian masterpiece, both prescient and timeless, uniquely Czech and yet universal. Like…
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