In the crackdown of nationalist Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's government on culture and media, heads of major cultural ...

The location of the work—whose authenticity remains unconfirmed—is “subject to strict secrecy”, according to the ministry of ...

Slovak art that bridges the decades. A NEW exhibit at the Bratislava City Gallery (GMB) examines Slovak art before and after the Velvet Revolution through the work of seventeen renowned Slovak visual ...

Behind the historic walls of Zvolen Castle in central Slovakia, a cultural wound has been opened. A monumental 250-square-metre mural by renowned Czech artists Jiří Franta and David Böhm, once a ...

As the 25th anniversary of the revolution – November 17 – neared, The Slovak Spectator approached some of the art and culture theoreticians, researchers, organisers and reviewers with questions about ...

Where best to remember the work of Andy Warhol, who died 25 years ago this February? Forget New York – get on the next plane to Medzilaborce.

There can be few film festivals as eclectic as Slovakia’s Art Film Fest, where, this year, works by established and emerging local directors — such as Tereza Nvotova, with her mental health ...

Slovakia’s Art Film Fest, with a 23-year history as a flagship of the post-Velvet Revolution cultural world, is in an expansive mood these days. It’s settling comfortably into the quickly ...

The Jewish community of Zilina in Slovakia will rent out one of its former synagogues to artists who plan to turn it into a gallery. The community will charge the artists a “symbolic fee ...

A bust attributed to Renaissance master Donatello has re-emerged in Slovakia after falling into obscurity following World War II, but the country's nationalist government has sparked anger by ...