Art and culture

Central Europe’s most famous design and fashion event is now in its 24th year. The programme is extremely rich, featuring numerous installations, fashion shows and lectures. Once again this year Designblok will offer a comprehensive presentation of the latest Czech and international contemporary design....

Clairvoyant, healer and expert in alternative medicine, František Bardon is known as one of the most important and mysterious esotericists of the 20th century He is said to have been able to find hidden objects, read people’s minds and diagnose their health just by...

The famous Czech painter who settled in the French capital in 1948 and made the ville lumière her second home A white kitchen chair, four teaspoons, and a few other bits and pieces. Poor objects scattered among abandoned drawings and paintings. It was the sad...

Interview with Alberta Lai, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute “Not a turris eburnea , but a corner of Italy in the heart of Prague” by Lorenzo Staffa It is a Friday afternoon in late September, with the sun high in the sky and...

The memory box that reminds us of the history of architect Rudolf Wels The story of one of the most prominent talents of Czech architecture between the two wars is brought nowadays in the spotlight by a box remained intact for forty years in...

Franco Cardini wanted to dedicate his last work to Prague and the magic that this city has always had on writers from around the world. “The magical capital of old Europe is an extraordinary journey through time and space: it’s the city of the...

Gene Deitch, among the most important animators of all time, has died at the age of 95 in Prague, where he lived since 1959 They labeled him a madman; he preferred to describe himself as “the only free American to work in Prague for...

Meeting with the eclectic Italian composer and singer who has been living in the Bohemian city for several years What do the “Trains of Tozeur”, interpreted by Alice and Franco Battiato, have in common with the “machine of love and death” staged in 1987...

Printed by the H&H publishing house, and translated by Alice Flemrová and Tomáš Matras, the book “Poesie / Básně” by Pier Paolo Pasolini is a brand-new release, a collection of selected poems by the great Italian poet, writer, director and screenwriter who died in...

Paolo Ganz is a Venetian writer, musician and traveler who dedicated his book to Prague. Armed with a quill and a journal, he describes the city to us as he sees it, balanced on a line between past and present. To understand Prague, you...