Culture
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Legendary “Sandokan” star of this year’s Prague Bollywood Festival
All this week Prague has been playing host to the sixth annual Bollywood festival of Indian film. The festival has grown from an informal gathering of film students into a…
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Petr Kotík – Part 1
Petr Kotík is a Prague-born composer and conductor based in New York. He is the founder and artistic director of the S.E.M. Ensemble, a group that performs modern…
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Alter Ego – An EU competition on cultural diversity
Imagine you were born in another European country, who would you be? What would you look like? What languages would you speak? Those were some of the questions students in…
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Prague Castle marking anniversary of state’s foundation with historical exhibitions and other events
A number of hugely important historical moments have been remembered in the Czech Republic this year: the communist takeover of 1948, the Soviet-led invasion of 1968, and…
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Major Czech record label Supraphon changes hands
The oldest Czech record label Supraphon has a new owner. The music publishing company, part of the Bonton entertainment group, was sold last week to Czech industry tycoon…
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Appreciation of design “absolutely different” than decade ago, says director of Prague’s biggest…
The annual Designblok festival has just got underway at a number of venues in Prague, and this year it’s bigger than ever. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary…
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Mailbox
Today we reveal the name of our September mystery person and announce the four winners who will receive small gifts for their correct answers. We quote from entries by…
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Modern art in unexpected places at Prague's third Tina B festival
Have you ever wondered what a spider's web made out of neckties would look like? Or perhaps a dilapidated Italian house inside a Czech garage? Well, look no further: the…
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Exhibition highlights work of pioneering modernist architect Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modern architecture in the early 20th century. A German speaker born in Brno, Loos carried out a lot of his most important…
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Holocaust victims remembered by new ‘Stones of the Vanished’ project
If you stumble across a little brass plaque on a walk in Prague’s Old Town next week, then the chances are it is going to be a ‘kámen zmizelého’ (‘stone of the vanished…
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Art collection stolen by the Nazis to return to its rightful owners
The art collection of Emil Freund, a Prague Jewish lawyer who was murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, will return to his heirs in the United States. After the…
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The continuing Czech love affair with Jean-Paul Belmondo
This week I had the opportunity to visit a French brasserie here in the Czech capital, the site for the launch of a new Czech book about famous French actor Jean-Paul…
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