At Prague’s Veletrzni Palac
The entrance to the National Gallery (via flickr.com/lr) What makes a Czech person Czech? National identity is hard to define when a country is only 17 years old. It becomes an even harder question, a...
View ArticleA Print-based Resistance Movement
A view of the exhibition at Manhattan's Czech Center (All photos by the author for Hyperallergic) One of the most difficult things to evoke in an art show is a snapshot of a culture. On the other hand,...
View ArticleThe Allure of Czech Modernist Posters
Atelier UR, “Letecky Meeting Aeroklub RCS a Klubu Pridruzenych. Neubert, Prague” (1929) Last Sunday, the Dutch Poster Museum in Hoorn, The Netherlands, opened its doors for a special exhibition of...
View ArticleCzech Artists’ Radical Book Designs of the Early 20th Century
Jindřich Štyrský, illustration for ‘Zastřený profil’ (1940) by Miloš Marten (all image courtesy the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) The founding of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in 1918 also led to a...
View ArticleProvocative Art about Blood and Masks
Daniel Pešta, “Scream III” (2015-2016), acrylic on canvas, (all images courtesy of DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague) Daniel Pešta’s largest exhibition to date, drawn from his high-flying decade...
View ArticlePrague’s First Private Museum Is Haunted by the Specter of Communism
Kunsthalle Praha is determined to walk the line between East and West, past and present.
View ArticleIslands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art...
Six visual arts organizations across Europe are collaborating on a new project addressing togetherness, fairness, responsibility, and kindness.
View ArticleJonas Staal’s Propaganda Station Premieres at PLATO Ostrava
Ten years of artistic research on propaganda and counterpropaganda went into the installation, which explores the mechanisms maintaining the status quo. On view in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
View ArticlePauline Curnier Jardin and the Feel Good Cooperative Collaborate on Roman...
Videos and prints by Curnier Jardin and the collective of sex workers, artists, and architects are on view in this exhibition at Prague City Gallery.
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