Top Czech photographers show their work

Six hundred eye-catching photographs are exhibited at Prague’s Old Town Hall giving everyone the opportunity to see what the top Czech and Slovak photo journalists captured in 2009 to win the annual prizes of the Czech Press Photo competition that is held in the Czech Republic for the 15th time. Until January 31, 2010, at the Cross Corridor and the Knight’s Hall of the Old Town Hall, more than 40,000 people are expected to visit the exhibition, with many more thousands viewers to see it when it travels abroad.
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Reliving history

If you played with toy soldiers when you were little, if you are a history buff, or if you are looking to see (and learn) something different while visiting the Czech Republic, head to the town of Slavkov near Brno. Slavkov? Never heard of it? Maybe the town's German name, Austerlitz, rings a bell. In 1805, the town's surroundings witnessed the Battle of the Three Emperors, also known simple as the Battle of Austerlitz.
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Diana Krall’s Quiet Nights in Europe

With a Canadian and US tour now behind her, international jazz superstar Diana Krall is focusing on her remaining European trek behind her latest album, the Brazilian bossa nova-flavored Quiet Nights. The remaining part of her European leg in October and November 2009 is a hectic 37-date tour that spans 33 cities in 19 countries: France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, FYRoM, Serbia, Romania, Czech Rep. and Russia. If you’re anywhere close where she performs do not miss the opportunity.
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A Czech brick in the Wall

A group of Czech musicians, all excellent players and respected in their own right, come together to present what is probably the most ambitious and demanding project in Prague’s musical scene this year. The Wall 2009 is a unique concert that takes place at the O2 Arena on October 31, to recreate as a full scale show Pink Floyd's historical double album The Wall, which was released 30 years ago. This mega concert also coincides with the 20th anniversary of Prague’s Velvet Revolution, which highlighted the end of European Communism, and of course the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Depeche Mode touring the Universe

The English electronic band Depeche Mode returns to Europe to continue the Tour of the Universe 2009, after a long leg in the Americas. The trek is in support of the group's 12th studio album -Sounds of the Universe, released in April 2009- and takes them to 36 cities in 17 countries (Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, UK, Hungary, Czech Republic, Norway, Russia, Poland, Croatia) from October 31, 2009 to February 27, 2010.
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Celebrating music in Český Krumlov

The annual International Music Festival in Český Krumlov in the southern Czech Republic, close to the Austrian border kicks off once again and from July 17 to August 22 visitors can enjoy 24 exceptional evenings –half of them in the open air- with top Czech and international musicians. Seven different venues host this 18th edition of the festival with predominant the sound of opera and symphony, chamber music, vocals and recitals, with room for jazz, musicals and music and food from European culture, this time concentrating on Greece. play twenty-four concerts throughout festival.
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Who was Rabbi Loew and his Golem?

The name of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel probably means little if anything outside the Czech Republic but for the people of Prague, the Rabbi is one of the city’s most recognisable figures from the past. But the religious, pedagogical and philosophical legacy of this scholar remains a lively inspiration to this day. This year, September 7 marks the 400th anniversary of the renowned rabbi’s death and the Jewish Museum of Prague is presenting two parallel exhibitions that will help the general public and the visitors know who this man was and what happened to his legendary creature, the Golem!
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Bodies Revealed in Brno

The exhibition Bodies Revealed opened in Olympia in Brno in June 2, 2009, with the ensuing marketing push and massive media attention. Millions of people all over the world have seen this exhibition, which shows actual human specimens and body parts. The exhibit is due to run until June 2010. Using real human specimens, painstakingly prepared and respectfully displayed, the exhibition lets visitors of all ages explore deep within the human body in a way that informs but doesn’t overwhelm.
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Harun Farocki videos in Prague

Elaborate video installations of Harun Farocki, an artist who has influenced many avant-garde filmmakers, artists and media theorists, is for the first time on display the Czech Republic. Tranzitdisplay, the Prague resource environment for contemporary art, presents Farocki’s works that have as a pivotal theme the process of creation and reproduction of images. This is what the artist himself most accurately defines as “film essays” or a certain “form of intelligence.” You can visit the exhibition until August 31, 2009.
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Černý’s back!

After unveiling his scandalous Entropa installation in Brussels last January, creating uproar throughout Europe and insult to the sense of European political correctness by depicting stereotypes of EU member states, notorious Czech artist David Černý strikes back with an exhibition at Prague's newest international gallery of contemporary art, Dvorak Sec Contemporary, on show until the end of September.
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