Culture
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Japanese professor brings ‘Raumplan’ of visionary architect Adolf Loos to life in models
Japanese professor of architecture Yoshio Sakurai has over the past twelve years visited every building ever realised by Adolf Loos, the Brno-born pioneer of European…
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Prague’s Lennon Wall gets new face as 30 Years of Freedom celebrations slowly get underway
John Lennon’s wall in Prague, which features a wide array of thematic street art, is a popular destination for tourists and a symbolic site of Czech opposition to the…
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Czech Republic to be guest of honour at Leipzig Book Fair
The Leipzig Book Fair, one of the most important literary events in the world, gets underway in the East German city this week with the Czech Republic as the main guest of…
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Věra Bílá – the tragic singer who astonished the world with her Romani music
Věra Bílá died of a heart attack this week, days before her scheduled comeback tour. The Roma singer, who was widely regarded as a great talent and once sang to sold out…
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Legendary pianist Alfred Brendel to visit Prague
The legendary pianist Alfred Brendel will come to Prague this weekend to take part in a three-day festival organised in his honour. The Czech-born musician, considered to…
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Czech singer Věra Bílá, dubbed the Ella Fitzgerald of Gypsy music, dies days before her comeback…
It was supposed to be the week when she started her comeback tour. Instead, it ended with her death on a hospital bed. Věra Bílá, who died on Tuesday, was just 64-years…
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Alex Zucker: I don’t want to translate books, I want to translate authors
New York-based Alex Zucker is one of the most highly-regarded translators of Czech literature into English and works regularly with leading writers such as Jáchym Topol…
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Anděl Award winners – Monkey Business, The Atavists, Ty Nikdy, Barbora Poláková, Lucie, Miro Žbirka
Today’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to winners of the Czech music industry's annual Anděl awards. Among them are The Atavists, named Discovery of the Year and winners…
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Czech Film Commissioner Pavlína Žipková on the friendly ‘subsidy war’ to lure in foreign film and…
Behind the scenes, a ‘subsidy war’ is raging in Central Europe among national film commissions, which have been steadily sweetening rebates and incentives to attract…
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Exhibition maps Bartered Bride’s foreign productions
An exhibition mapping the famous foreign productions of The Bartered Bride, perhaps the most popular Czech opera, gets underway at the Bedřich Smetana Museum in Prague…
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Karel Kryl – Singer who put poetry in protest died 25 years ago OTD
Karel Kryl, perhaps the greatest Czech protest singer ever, died on this day 25 years ago, at the age of only 49. Kryl’s spare and highly poetic songs such as Bratříčku…
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Inside the atelier of twin sister ‘Dames of Czech Culture’ Jitka and Květa Válová
Twin sisters Jitka and Květa Válová, named “Dames of Czech Culture” in memorandum this week, were once described by a Communist zealot as an “ulcer on the red face of…
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