Art and culture

Milan Kundera turns 90: the eventful life of a Brno son. His considerations scattered here and there in the text remain engraved even more than the stories Should one ask a profane – with a fascination for reading – to name a Czech writer,...

The charm of the writer in a Prague perspective: reading levels, engaging writing and a mysterious identity What is the recipe for writing a best-seller? It is not easy to answer this question, we would have to ask Dan Brown, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling...

From June 28th to October 20th The National Gallery in Prague hosts “French impressionism: masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard collection”, at Kinský Palace, an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Danish Ordrupgaard museum. An exhibition of light and colour that presents about sixty works including...

From May 25th to July 28th “The Form of Ideology. Prague: 1948-1989”, is the title of an exhibition dedicated to Czechoslovak art, open until 28 July at the Palace of the Governor of Parma, in the Representative Hall of the Municipality. More than 200...

Il bruciacadaveri, by Ladislav Fuks A new edition of a classic. This story is set in one of the most tragic periods of the twentieth century, the one dominated by Nazism with the imminent war, the Jewish question, the planned persecutions and the invasion...

Beauty and defects of one of Alfons Mucha’s most complex works, a masterpiece that is waiting to be exhibited to the public again The Slav Epic by Alfons Mucha, besides being one of the greatest works of art ever made by a Czech artist...

La grande opera di Giuseppe Arcimboldo, by Aldo delle Rose The writer Aldo delle Rose is publishing a new volume dedicated to the figure of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an artist who over the centuries has experienced alternating moments of fame and oblivion. His rediscovery stemmed...

History of Negrelli’s bridge, the second oldest one in Prague, and its creator, the most famous engineer of the Empire Architecture “is the immovable scene of human actions”, stated Aldo Rossi. Impassive, the Negrelli viaduct is a familiar presence for the people in Prague....

From the former Czechoslovakia to today’s Czech Republic: the director, through her camera lens, continues to be a reliable source of the reality of this country During a retrospective at the IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam, the world’s largest documentary festival,...

L’amore è per sempre: la vita di madre Adalberta Hasmandová, by Madre Inviolata Krupková The book “L’amore è per sempre” tells the story of mother Adalberta Hasmandová born in 1941 in Huštěnovice, in a farmer’s family of eight children. From a young age, Adalberta felt...