A century of artists arguing with the newspaper, in Prague
Every generation of artists since the invention of the mass newspaper has had to work out what to do with it: copy it, cut it up, quote it, distrust it. HIT BY NEWS at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art collects a century of those answers, drawn from the collection of Annette and Peter Nobel, and looks hard at a society that was, is and will keep being shaped by the media.
DOX has built a summer around the idea. On the roof terrace of DOX+, the DOX Summer Cinema runs nine evenings of films about the power and powerlessness of the press: All the President's Men on 11 August, the documentary Riefenstahl on 18 August, Absence of Malice on 25 August, and 80 Angry Journalists, an inside account of the fight over the Hungarian news site Index.hu, on 4 August.
The rest of the building is busy too. Jiří Petrbok's Patient Diary gathers three decades of his self-portraits as one continuous record of a self under question — it closes on 16 August. Radka Bodzewicz's FAUST takes on Goethe, in a practice that has long painted from books. Jakub Berdych Karpelis has filled a room with Bazaar Bizaar, an installation made from the memory of other objects. And Point of View 4: Resilience is half exhibition, half classroom, built for slowing down.
Autumn brings ANDROS, a group show on the male body with artists from Germany, Austria, the Visegrád countries and the Czech Republic, and in October a survey of the visual work of David Tibet — of Current 93 — accompanied by two concerts by the band in November.
HIT BY NEWS runs until 23 August 2026 at DOX, Poupětova 1, Prague 7. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00–19:00.