Culture
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Prague will have its New Year’s fireworks show, but separate from City Hall’s official video…
Despite the practice being stopped by City Hall earlier this year, Praguers will get to see a special fireworks show during New Year’s celebrations, albeit privately…
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From Mánes to modernity: Prague Castle unveils 200 years of Czech Portraits
An exhibition marking 200 years of portraiture in the Czech lands gets underway at Prague Castle today. The curators have brought together exquisite works by the nation’s…
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Prague’s State Opera to reopen after three-year renovation
The extensive renovation of Prague’s historic State Opera building has been completed. The building should re-open its door to the public on January 5, exactly 132 years…
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Classic Vladimír Merta debut gets fresh vinyl release 50 years later
Exactly 50 years ago, Vladimír Merta, one of the country’s most respected singer-songwriters and an excellent guitarist, released his debut album called Ballades de Prague…
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Ivan Fíla, filmmaker-turned-bestselling novelist, returns to story of immortal love with The Cameo…
This summer, director and screenwriter Ivan Fíla’s historical novel about Dr. František Kriegel – the only Prague Spring leader not to sign the Moscow Protocol validating…
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Bohuslav Martinů – one of the most prolific Czech composers of classical music
Not only is Bohuslav Martinů one of the most famous Czech composers, but next to Antonín Dvořák he is also the most played. Born in the small Czech village of Polička on…
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Legendary Tatra 77 car showcased at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum
A new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London brings together fifteen diverse cars to explore how the automobile accelerated the pace of change over the past…
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Robert Guttmann: painter, globetrotting Zionist, and “most caricatured man” of 20th century Prague
The early 20th century naïve painter and sketch artist Robert Guttmann, in whose honour the exhibition gallery of the Jewish Museum in Prague is named, was famous in his…
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Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship renewed
The celebrated Czech-born writer Milan Kundera received Czech citizenship forty years after it was revoked by the communist regime. The author of The Unbearable Lightness…
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Zvíře jménem Podzim conjure autumnal atmosphere on new LP Září
The music project Zvíře jménem Podzim (An Animal Named Autumn) is the brainchild of Jakub König, who also goes by the name Kittchen. However, on Září, their recently…
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“It’s still revolutionary”: Věra Chytilová’s Daisies comes sixth in BBC poll of films by women
The 1966 film Daisies by Věra Chytilová has come sixth in an extensive new BBC poll of the 100 greatest works by female directors. But what makes the surreal, anarchic…
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Jan Kasl: In ‘89 people hoped for hundreds of unique new buildings in Prague
Prague has obviously changed enormously over the last 30 years. But what have been the city’s most, and least, impressive construction projects since the Velvet Revolution…
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