Culture
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Museum commemorating Johannes Kepler’s stay in Prague opens to public
Over the centuries, Prague has hosted many outstanding scientists from across Europe – among them the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. Kepler spent a…
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Sculptor Pavel Opočenský: “I was the least angry prisoner”.
Sculptor Pavel Opočenský has seen many twists and turns in his life. After signing Charter 77, he left for Germany to eventually settle in New York. When he came back…
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Photographer Robert Vano looks back over 40-year career with The Platinum Collection
The Platinum Collection is the title of the biggest retrospective to date by the photographer Robert Vano, who is best known for his male nudes. Vano is a Hungarian Slovak…
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Political commentator Bohumil Doležal: the web is great compared to samizdat
For many Czechs, politics is a world of its own, with its own rules and strange characters. Some back their candidates based on things that have little to do with their…
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Letní Letná circus and theatre festival kicks off in Prague
The sixth year of the Letní Letná or Summer Letná festival of new circus and avant garde theatre has just got underway at Prague’s Letná Park. Until the end of August…
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Pianist Jan Simon on Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and what he was doing when he was ‘sweet sixteen’
My guest today in One on One is concert pianist and director of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Jan Simon. Simon has studied with some of the great pianists including…
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Fresh Film Fest ends sixth year of showcasing student cinema
Every year, for those who simply don’t get enough of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, there is another important film event just around the corner in very…
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A cab on both sides of the road: Iva Pekárková’s London
One of the things I find most refreshing about Iva Pekárková’s writing is that it is so untypical. Her books have taken us to New York, Nigeria, and now London and Senegal…
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National Museum opens former Federal Parliament building to the public
This Saturday, the National Museum in Prague will open its newest building to the public, the former Prague bourse, former building of the Federal Parliament, and until…
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Rabbi Loew, the Jewish hero of the Czechs
“Path of Life” is the name of a new exhibition by the Jewish Museum in Prague marking 400 years since the death of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a 16th century scholar and…
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New exhibition on Rabbi Loew marks 400 years since his death
Few rabbis and Jewish scholars became part of legends of non-Jewish people. But one, Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel who lived in Prague at the turn of the 17th century, has…
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Boss of Prague-based worldwide film production company Matthew Stillman on how he got started in…
Matthew Stillman is the boss of the Czech Republic’s biggest production company for foreign films, Stillking Films. It has produced some of the blockbusters that have…
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