Art and culture

The model employee life of Franz Kafka «I am at Assicurazioni Generali, but I hope to sit down one day in the chairs of very distant countries, to look at the office windows on sugar cane fields or Muslim cemeteries, the insurance business interests...

The story of the monument, wanted by T.G. Masaryk to represent the identity of the new state and honour the victims of the Great War, amid technical, stylistic and diplomatic difficulties The whole city, and ideally all of the new independent and democratic state...

The extraordinary story of the Slovenian Jože Plečnik, with whom Tomáš G. Masaryk entrusted the architectural renaissance of the Prague Castle in 1920 Once upon a time in a not too distant past, in the heart of Europe, there was a majestic castle overlooking a...

“Dokonalý Michelangelo” is the Czech translation of the prestigious work by Alessandro Vezzosi entitled “Michelangelo Assoluto” (published by Scripta Maneant). The magnificent volume offers a complete view of the great artist Michelangelo collecting the richest photographic apparatus in the history of art publishing on...

The magnificence of the Czech Baroque style, enforced on the Bohemian Lands but quickly assimilated and, nowadays, inseparable from the national consciousness An invitation to experience the Baroque with all senses. This is what Czech Republic proposes for 2017, a year of rediscovery of...

Artist, painter, bon viveur: chronicle of an hedonist “Reindl was an artist in the purest sense of the term. For him painting was a pleasure, with no thought given to the exhibitions, the public, and even less to the art market”. Through his admiration...

The year 2017 was marked the death of Jan Tříska, the popular film and theatre actor, who died after mysteriously falling from Charles bridge Looking back at the forty years of Communism in Czechoslovakia, there were many illustrious artists who had previously fallen foul...

A unique collection of samizdat and exile literature protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Memory. A meeting with its director and founder, Jiří Gruntorád The door of what looks like a regular flat on the third floor of Senovážné náměstí 2, not far...

The explorer and writer, but also a priest and diplomat, born in Moravia, whose life is reminiscent of that of the legendary Thomas Edward Lawrence   The accusation that condemned him to oblivion, was that of bourgeois cosmopolitanism, aggravated by close ties with the...

Milena Lenderová, a historian of the University of Pardubice, is the author of the book: “Traveling women”, consisting of 16 texts that include notes and travel reports, diaries and stories written by women from the Czech lands in the years between 1782 and 1936....