Before the First World War, more than 50,000 Czechs lived in New York City. When the moment of the struggle for national self-determination came, these Americans generously supported the anti-Habsburg resistance led by Professor Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.
Read MoreExactly one year after the Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia, on February 25, 1949, the Council of Free Czechoslovakia (Rada svobodneho Ceskoslovenska) – Umbrella Organization of the Anti-Communist Exile – was founded in Washington, D.C. The governments of twenty-one countries recognized its establishment. Initially, the Council claimed to be a kind of representative umbrella organization for the democratic Czechoslovak exile, but this idea quickly proved unworkable.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreIn a heady, multi-million-dollar New York City real estate transaction, the historic Jan Hus Presbyterian Church will be leaving its 131-year-old edifice at 351 East 74st Street, and moving to a new location at East 90st Street and First Avenue. The Jan Hus Church building has been purchased and will be renovated by the Church of the Epiphany, which in turn will see its 1930s church at York Avenue and 74th Street demolished and replaced by a Weill-Cornell Medical Center building.
Read MoreAs a center of Czech culture and government, the historic Bohemian National Hall was recently the proud venue of a historic exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic. To mark this occasion, the original manuscript the "New World" Symphony, composed by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak in New York City in 1893, was placed on public view
Read MoreThe Dvorak American Heritage Association (DAHA) unveiled its exhibition of the contract that brought Antonin Dvorak to America, featuring the original 1892 document signed by Dvorak and recently acquired by DAHA.
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