Art and culture

The twenty years of Alphonse Mucha in the “Ville-Lumière”. The father of Art Nouveau is told through opera divas, jewelry boutiques and seances in the Paris of the Exposition Universelle “I had no clothes. So I made do with a tail coat hired for...

After several not exactly stellar years, Czech cinema seems to have emerged from hibernation, as displayed in the last Karlovy Vary festival. “Dramedies” such as Kobry a Užovky and Domácí péče, as well as the documentary Mallory, promise to bring international success back to...

Nei suoi occhi verdi Finally coming out in Italian, following the translation by Letizia Kostner for Keller Publishing house, is the work: “Nei suoi occhi verdi” by the Czech Jewish writer and Auschwitz survivor, Arnošt Lustig (1926-2011). Lustig, considered one of the most important...

The great Miroslav Ondříček has passed away, a two-time Oscar nominee, and one of the most closely associated names with the Czechoslovak Nová vlna of the ‘60s With Miloš Forman he formed one of the most famous collaborations between a director and a cinematographer in...

The story of František Kupka, the father of abstract art «I remember that when I got to his house, an old man opened the door. I told him I was a Czechoslovak art student in exile and that I would love to see his...

Among the events organized in the European Capital of Culture of 2015 the exhibition dedicated to the “Walt Disney of the East”, Jiří Trnka, stands out Plzeň is known worldwide for the world-famous Pilsner Urquell, but there are many famous names associated with the...

The atmosphere of the great musician conveyed through the paintings of Vittorio Ferrarini and Ferdinando Quintavalla A journey into the world of Giuseppe Verdi, not only through the scenes of the works of the great composer of Busseto, but also landscapes and the atmosphere...

Escaped from the communist Czechoslovakia in 1975, the Czech writer will find a second home in France ready to welcome him Watching from a observatory window, from the thirtieth floor of the tallest tower in the city. Towards the east, towards Prague. In 1975...

Petrarca v Provence. Údolí, město, hora Prof. Špička’s book brings together three typical Petrarchian themes, that are normally treated separately: Vaucluse, Avignon and Mont Ventoux, to create a mental map of Provence and the existence of the young Petrarch, but above all because –...

R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) Born in Malé Svatoňovice, in Bohemia, on January 9, 1890, Karel Čapek was a Czech journalist, writer and playwright. He worked on his first writings together with his brother Josef, and after 1917, began his freelance career which soon resulted...