Culture
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Czech art market sees record-breaking year in 2016
The Czech art market saw another record-breaking year in 2016. Although final data for the past year are not yet available, it is clear that the overall turnover at Czech…
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Hradišťan and Spirituál kvintet sing Christmas carols
In today’s special Christmas edition of Sunday music show, we’ll be listening a live recording of a concert featuring the Moravian folk rock band Hradišťan and Spirituál…
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Jakub Jan Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass staged in Tokyo
Jakub Jan Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass is undoubtedly one of the symbols of Czech Christmas, along with fried carp and Christmas cookies. Composed by a small-town teacher…
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End of chapter for legendary Prague bookstore
The legendary Fišer bookstore in Kaprova Street near the Old Town Square, which has been selling books since the 1930s, is closing down. Despite a petition with over 3,500…
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Three Wishes for Cinderella: Beloved Czech film fairytale gets new international release
Tři oříšky pro Popelku, which literally translates as Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella, is the most popular Czech movie fairytale, watched every Christmas by all generations…
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Current trends in Europe and US make Havel’s writings relevant once again, says academic David S…
Sunday was the fifth anniversary of the death of Václav Havel, the Czech dissident who led the Velvet Revolution and went on to spend nearly 13 years as president. But…
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Dné – Atmospheric sounds and smart titles combine on mesmerising debut
Dné is the alias of Ondřej Holý, a keyboard and laptop wizard who last month released his atmospheric debut long player These Semi Feelings, They are Everywhere on a…
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Arnošt Lustig: remembering a great Czech writer
This week would have been the 90th birthday of Arnošt Lustig, one of the great voices of contemporary Czech fiction, who died in 2011. As a child he survived Auschwitz and…
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Viktorie Beldová - Designer of a crown fit for a king
The Belda family are famous Prague jewellers who are the only ones certified to oversee the upkeep of the Czech crown jewels; recently, the youngest designer in the family…
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Sís tapestry stops off in Prague ahead of installment at new Havel building in Strasbourg
A tapestry bound for a new Václav Havel building in Strasbourg has just been placed on display at the DOX art centre in Prague. A larger version of the French-made artwork…
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Magdalena Kožená in fray for Grammy awards
The world-renowned Czech mezzo soprano Magdalena Kožená has been nominated for this year’s Grammy Awards, along with such stars as Beyonce or Rihanna. Kožená received the…
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Genevieve Anderson: A decade bringing a classic Hrabal book to life, using puppets
In 2007 Genevieve Anderson brought out a short animated film based on Too Loud a Solitude, a novella by the great Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. Now the US director has…
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