Culture
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Zdeněk Mahler – part two
This is the second part of a special Czechs Today dedicated to the writer, journalist and filmmaker Zdeněk Mahler. Over the years, Mahler, who is 80, has worked at the…
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Actress Anna Geislerová to host top Czech literary awards
If you are a writer or translator in the Czech Republic, then about the biggest accolade you can get is a Magnesia Litera award. The eighth annual Magnesia Litera was…
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Ivo Anderle – operator of Prague’s leading arthouse cinemas
Ivo Anderle operates Prague’s two leading arthouse cinemas, Aero, in the Žižkov district of the city, and Světozor, a few metres from Wenceslas Square. In recent years he…
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Czech Radio’s property empire
Ask practically any inhabitant of the capital for directions to Czech Radio and you'll be pointed to an imposing functionalist building, tucked just behind Wenceslas…
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Motion Pictures exhibition presents another side of artist Andy Warhol
As well as his famous paintings of pop culture icons, the US artist Andy Warhol also made scores of films, often single, unedited shots of his favourite people, or even…
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Studio Najbrt setting standard for graphic design in Czech Republic
The trailer for the 2007 Karlovy Vary Film Festival is a highly kinetic and graphic introduction told through various typefaces. It was also the first – and so far the…
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“Teacher of Nations” exhibition opens in Prague
A new exhibition on the legacy of Jan Ámos Komenský, usually known abroad as Comenius, opened in Prague on Wednesday. An accompanying event of the Czech presidency of the…
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Author, playwright and journalist Zdeněk Mahler - part one
For this edition of Czechs Today I met octogenarian Zdeněk Mahler, born and raised in Prague’s Industrial Vysočany district. Over the last three quarters of a century…
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A controversial artwork in Brussels
A recent opinion poll suggested that a majority of Czechs are so far satisfied with their government’s running of the EU presidency one month on – even its handling of the…
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Martin C. Putna, director of the Václav Havel Library
Czechs are reputed to be one of Europe’s most atheist nations. Yet in the course of its history, the nation has produced many outstanding religious thinkers, philosophers…
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Entropa just a piece of the entropy of Czech guerrilla art
The commotion in recent weeks over David Černý’s Entropa exhibit in Brussels has made the sculpture one of the hallmarks of the Czech EU presidency. While its opponents…
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Film director Věra Chytilová turns 80
It seems hard to believe, but one of the leading personalities of the Czech film business, director Věra Chytilová, turned 80 on Monday. Congratulations poured in from…
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