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Current AffairsExceptional French painting fails to interest Czech art collectors
This weekend a painting by a famous French Fauvist painter Maurice de
Vlaminck was sold at an auction in Prague’s Dorotheum for 5.3 million
crowns (approximately 280,000 US dollars). Even though it was valued at 7
million crowns, in the end it only slightly exceeded the starting price.
Vlaminck’s “Landscape with Buildings”, dating back to 1914, has thus
become the 13th most expensive work of art to be sold at a Czech auction.
The head of the auction house Marie Galova says it is not easy to explain
the lack of interest on the part of buyers but it may be connected with the
local character of the Czech art market.
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Current AffairsCzech pop band Krystof back with new album "Rubikon"
A number of years ago the Czech band Krystof - led by frontman Richard
Krajco - broke onto the Czech pop scene with their first album
"Magneticke Pole" (Magnetic Fields), their single
"Lolita" bringing them overnight success. Since then, the band
has released four more albums, including the critically acclaimed
"Mikrokosmos". But, none was perhaps more anticipated than its
latest "Rubikon", which some Czech critics are already calling
one of Krystof's best. The lead single has climbed to third spot on the
charts (in popular TV music programme Eso) and it's now getting a fair
amount of rotation. More
ArtsFrench exhibition of Czech art winds up, heads for Prague
In the shadow of the church of the St. Germain de Pres on the Rue
Bonaparte, the staff of the Czech Cultural Center waved visitors in to the
closing celebration of a unique exhibition of the work of 10 contemporary
Czech artists. The hands-on experience of Orbis Pictus comprised three
floors of fantastical, whimsical instruments and machines, all of which
could be touched and many of which could be used to create sounds and
music.
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One on One"Everything is possible!"- Daniel Gulko on the Letni Letna circus festival and "Moby Locked Up"
This week sees the return of the Letni Letna circus festival to Prague's
Letna park, a festival attracting top-notch and avant garde theatre and
circus ensembles from both the Czech Republic and abroad. American
performer Daniel Gulko - of the Cahin-Caha Company - is one of the more
well-known performers who will be premiering a solo work-in-progress
inspired by Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". It's titled Moby
Locked
Up, about an oil tanker captain who unhappily sinks his ship.
Jan spoke with Daniel recently about the show, but began by asking how he
saw the importance of Letni Letna, now in its third season. More
ArtsViews of Galerie VU: French contemporary photo collection comes to Prague
The largest Paris private photo-gallery - Galerie VU is currently featuring
selection of its collections in the Prague Langhans Gallery. What you can
see there is work of 28 contemporary photographers from different
countries of the world. As the Langhans Gallery spokeswoman Dagmar
Cujanova says, it is the first time they decided to present another
commercial gallery in their rooms.
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Current AffairsNational Library eyes priceless "Czech" manuscript in upcoming auction
The Czech National Library is setting its sights on an unprecedented prize:
a surviving fragment of a translation in Latin of the famous
"Chronicle of Dalimil", one of the earliest Czech language
chronicles dating back to the 14th century. For three generations the
parchment - featuring rich illuminations and text - lay forgotten in a
dusty bottom drawer - before being rediscovered by its owners - a
prominent Parisian family that has now put it up for auction. The bidding
begins at around 200,000 dollars but it has already been estimated that
the Czech National Library may have to bid well over a million to earn the
right to bring the manuscript home. Is it worth it? Jan Velinger spoke to
the National Library's Zdenek Uhlir to find out.
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Current AffairsSuccessful Czech model remembers her roots on (mostly) French-language CD
After picking up a love of France from her grandfather, who worked as a
miner there, Iva Fruehlingova moved to Paris at just 14 to try her luck in
the world of modelling. Success - and big contracts - followed, before
Iva, who is now 21, decided to try something else she'd always wanted to
do: singing. Her first CD, mostly in French but with one song in Czech,
has made the charts in France and Belgium, and has recently been released
here in the Czech Republic. It's called "Litvinov", after her
home town in north Bohemia. Iva Fruehlingova told her story to Radio
Prague.
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