Culture
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Young Czech designers make their mark at London’s International Fashion Showcase
Talented up-and-coming Czech designers presented their work at London’s International Fashion Showcase for the fourth year now. Following last year’s huge success with…
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Many gems of early 20th century Czech architecture among buildings newly listed as cultural…
Fifteen buildings were just recently added to the list of Czech Cultural Monuments, including an early 20th century power station in Poděbrady and Prague’s famous Lucerna…
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Czech folk legend Jarmila Šuláková
Czech folk legend Jarmila Šuláková, who died this week at the age of 87, brought Moravian folk music to audiences around the world. The „queen of folk“ sang from the heart…
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Grand Café Orient in Prague–the only Cubist café in the world
Grand Café Orient in Prague is unique in that it boasts being the only Cubist café in the world. It is located just a few minutes’ walk from Old Town Square -in Celetná…
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“In '70s Czechoslovakia I saw scenes from Forman’s films everywhere – I didn’t feel that with other…
The great Czech film director Miloš Forman – who turned 85 today – is perhaps best-known around the world for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, massive movies…
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An exhibition of contemporary paintings in Ostrava portrays walls, loneliness and the feeling of…
Fans of contemporary art should not miss an exhibition of paintings currently on show at the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava. An exhibition titled Disruptive Imagination…
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Czech Radio stresses public service role on World Radio Day
February 13 is World Radio Day recognizing the importance of radio as a media source, providing essential information and analysis. As a public broadcaster, Czech Radio…
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Smetana Trio’s latest album nominated for prestigious award
The latest album of Martinů’s compositions by one of the Czech Republic’s leading chamber ensembles, the Smetana Trio, has received nomination for a prestigious BBC Music…
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Marie Iljašenko: a European poet
In a Europe of growing nationalism, Marie Iljašenko is a young Czech poet who defies categorization. She was born in Kiev into a family with both Ukrainian and Polish…
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New film screening in Berlin depicts Jan Masaryk at low ebb after Munich
A new biopic exploring aspects of the life of Jan Masaryk will be the most keenly anticipated Czech-produced film at this year’s Berlinale, which gets underway in the…
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Czechs today need cosmopolitan model, says author of novel exploring J. A. Baťa’s exile in Brazil
A freshly published Czech novel reimagines episodes from the life of Jan Antonín Baťa, a Moravian business tycoon who built four cities in Brazil after being forced to…
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Rusalka makes waves with Metropolitan Opera production
Antonín Dvořák’s most famous opera Rusalka is back on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The highly anticipated production of the “lyric fairy tale” about a…
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