375: My career as an Art Smuggler Archival Spaces 375 Uploaded 13 June 2025 In Spring 1979 I was working as a free-lance curator on the exhibition, “Film und Foto der zwanziger Jahre/Film and Photo in the 1920s,” for the Würtembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany. At the time I was a year into my PhD.Continue reading “375: Smuggling Art”
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354 Prelude to War
Archival Spaces 354 Prelude to World War II: Documentaries Uploaded 23 August 2024 In the Summer of 1938 my dad, Jerome V. Horak, was mobilized into the Czechoslovak Army and received rudimentary basic training when it looked like an invasion by Nazi Germany was imminent. Less than a month later, he was sent home, afterContinue reading “354 Prelude to War”
337: Bratři/Brothers (2023)
Archival Spaces 337 Bratři / Brothers (2023, Tomáš Mašín) Uploaded 15 December 2023 Ambassador Jaroslav Olša and the Czech Consulate in Los Angeles recently invited guests to a special screening of the Czech entry to the Academy Awards, Bratři / Brothers (2023, Tomáš Mašín), at the Crescent Theater in Beverly Hills with the director inContinue reading “337: Bratři/Brothers (2023)”