The New York Chapter of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) invites you to their YouTube channel to watch six events that you might have missed: Escaping from Czechoslovakia (2016), Posezeni: Remembering New York’s “Little Bohemia” (2018), 6-Minute Challenge (2018), The Tribute to the Art of the Folksong (2018), 5+1: Jana Jarkovska (2019), and Americans in 1990s Prague (2019).
Read MoreWorking at her country studio in upstate New York, Czech-American artist Anna VA Polesny creates attention-getting “wearable art” in a revival of the art form that swept America over 50 years ago. An early work, her International Levi’s, embellished with embroidered iconography from her travels, won a prize in the Levi’s Denim Art Contest in 1974. Now they are one of the highlights of an upcoming survey exhibition presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Off the Wall: American Art to Wear.
Read MoreThe narrow field of specialisation that we see all around us, including in art and the commercial strategies of galleries, is a contemporary characteristic. However, artistic creativity behaves in exactly the opposite manner—it is a universal ability. If a person is a true artist, then he is able to and in fact prioritizes work in a variety of materials, i.e. in various artistic disciplines. That is the case of the world-renowned Czech glass-maker Zdenek Lhotsky (b. 1956) whose exhibition of works on paper we can see at BBLA Gallery.
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