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The newly reconstructed Stone Bell House on Prague's Old Town Square, is currently hosting an exhibition of photographs made by one of the most important Czech woman photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. Emila Medkova was born in 1928 and died in 1985 and one of her quotes from the only published interview she gave in her lifetime describes her work best: "If there is no mystery in a photograph, if its reality has no other design, then it is empty. It is not a matter of description of objects, it is not a matter of describing a head, a face inscribed in another object, but rather a matter of what is evoked." Lenka Bydzovska is one of the authors of the exhibition:

The New York's Metropolitan Museum is planning to show an extensive exhibition of late medieval art from Bohemia. Called "Prague - the Crown of the Czech Kingdom", the exhibition will feature art, music and more from the time of the Luxembourgs - the 14th and first half of the 15th centuries. The exhibition will begin at the Metropolitan in the autumn of 2005. By .

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Every year on November 16th culturally minded Czechs mark the birthday of the celebrated Czech Romantic poet Karel Hynek Macha, who was born in 1810. Macha's poem "May" is considered the greatest piece of verse written during the Romantic period in Bohemia. And November 16th also marked National Poetry Day in the CzechRepublic. By .

The 1990s marked a new process in theatre art - the search for Czech theatre's new artistic profile. The Czech theatre's transformation process is being stimulated by attempts to incorporate more contemporary alternative genres with the already present traditional ones. By .

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The creation of an event geared to contemporary artistic co-operation is new in the Prague arts scene. The organizers responsible for these types of gatherings, artists in their own right, have overseen the creation of venues for exhibitions with the theme of collaboration in mind.

Radio Prague's spoke with Christopher Heikens, one of the founders of Mediumcool, an events producing organisation about its exhibitions and events devoted to design at home and abroad.

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