Culture
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Pop Idol Aneta Langerova clinches Czech Nightingale absolute winner award
This Saturday, leading artists gathered at Prague's State Opera to receive and present the Cesky Slavik - Czech Nightingale - music awards. The event was hosted by…
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Kolya celebrates 10th anniversary, Havel takes New York by storm
In this week's edition - playwright Vaclav Havel takes New York by storm in a major retrospective of his works, and also picks up the theatre awards he was denied for more…
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"My films are not nice to these people"
One of the most distinctive young voices in Czech filmmaking celebrates her 30th birthday in two weeks: documentarian Erika Hnikova. This autumn she brought out her second…
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Twelve more Czech sites striving to make UNESCO list
The Czech Republic boasts numerous cultural heritage sites. Twelve of them, including the historic centre of Prague, the Villa Tugendhat in Brno, and the town of Cesky…
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Still a nation of bookworms in the era of the shopping mall
We are in the middle of the huge and very modern Novy Smichov shopping complex, one of many that have sprung up in Prague and other Czech cities in recent years. This…
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New exhibition presents Silesia as a "Pearl in the Bohemian Crown"
A new exhibition at Prague's Wallenstein Riding School displays some 400 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints from the 14th to 18th centuries. Divided into three…
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Prostejov's enchanting Art Nouveau house of culture
The house of culture in the Moravian town of Prostejov is one of the country's best examples of the art nouveau style. Built by the famous architect Jan Kotera, it…
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New exhibition features three periods of flourishing artistic relations
Silesia, a Pearl in the Bohemian Crown - is a new exhibition that is currently underway in Prague. As Dita Asiedu reports, paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints…
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Good Countryman Vladimir Mensik
With over 1,000 roles in his relatively short life, Vladimir Mensik was one of the country's most celebrated actors and entertainers. He performed on stage, in films…
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Encore: Vivaldi in Prague and the rich sound of the cathedral organ of Kromeriz
In Encore this week we look at an excellent CD of music from Prague during the Baroque period, and we also enjoy the rich sound of the cathedral organ in the beautiful…
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Dark side of psyche, society seen in "Dekadence" exhibition at Obecni Dum
Prague's Obecni Dum (Municipal House) is one of the Czech Republic's greatest Art Nouveau jewels. Now, however, it is home to an exhibition of a different but related art…
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Exhibition looks at work of two great artists as members of Czechoslovak Legions during Great War
Frantisek Kupka and Otto Gutfreund are two of the most important Czech artists of the first half of the 20th century; Kupka was a great painter and graphic artist, while…
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