Performing the East: Case-studies of Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980

On 22 June 2011 Amy Bryzgel from the University of Aberdeen explains – in her lecture held at 3.30 p.m. in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117 – how different socio-political circumstances influenced performance art in Eastern Europe. In Western Europe and North America,… more

Attached file: 20110622_Bryzgel.pdf

Alchemy and Rudolf II. Searching for the secrets of nature in Central Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries

The publication, consisting of more than 700 pages, and edited by Ivo Purš from the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Vladimír Karpenko from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, is the outcome of a project supported by the former Grant Agency… more

Attached file: anotace_Purs_Alchymie.pdf

Study visit "Kateřina Dušková Memorial Fellowship"

Studia Rudolphina: the Research Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II offers a study visit in memory of Kateřina Dušková, a young colleague who died tragically at the very beginning of her academic career. This study visit at the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of… more

Vojtěch Lahoda at the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives seminar at MoMA, New York

For two years now, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) has been organising the project Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C- MAP) in a Global Age: A Program for Research at the Museum of Modern Art, which aims at disseminating knowledge and discussion of modern and contemporary art… more