Flowers and Figures in Art
Exhibition at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro Gallery
Exhibition Date: May 30-June 24, 2015
Reception: June 14, 2015 2-4 p.m.
Seeing Still Life
Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery
Toronto, Canada
Date to be announced.
THE HABSBURGS: A New Fashion on the Art and Culture Scene?
ART TIMES online August 2015. In June 1965, my family and I said goodbye to our native land on the grounds of Devín Castle, perched high over the military zone between former Czechoslovakia and Austria. Across the Danube, less than 40 miles from the barbed wire fence, stood the city of my dreams, the heart and soul of the former Habsburg Empire. Since then, I have visited Vienna a number of times, crossing the border to my native Bratislava, each time with less trepidation…
Read more about the exciting exhibition, now in Atlanta.
Still Life Paintings
Mary Jacobs Memorial Library
Rocky Hill, NJ
September 1-30
Still Life Paintings 
Vienna Cafe
Princeton, NJ
Sept. 7-Nov. 30, 2015
Nudes in Art: FASHION OR PASSION?
Read my article in Vanichi.com about two current exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington: PLEASURE AND PIETY: The Art of Joachim Wtewael and Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye.
NEW HOPE, “My Life with Berti Spranger.” October 17, 2015 from 1:00-4:00 p.m., Eva Jana Siroka will be signing her new book at Farley’s Bookshop, 44 South Main Street, New Hope, PA. Tel: 215-862-2452.
BOSTON, “The Literati Scene.”
Interview with Smoki Bacon and Dick Concannon. October 27, 2015.
CAMBRIDGE, The Harvard Coop:
My Life with Berti Spranger. Lecture and book signing. October 27 at 7:00 p.m.
PRINCETON, TOWN TOPICS, Dec. 23, 2015
Siroka publishes novel “My Life with Berti Spranger”
Eva Jana Siroka has published a new novel, My Life with Berti Spranger (Jorge Pinto Books, paper, $14.95). A sequel to Maddalena (2005), it centers on the discovery of a lost memoir.
“The memoir is fictionalized,” said Ms. Siroka, who has a PhD in art history from Princeton, “but is rooted in the culture of Rudolfine Prague and Spranger’s patron’s taste for exotica and erotica.” Spranger’s paintings were recently exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. “I had been carrying his paintings and drawings in my mind for decades. He is such a fascinating character, a court painter who served a cardinal, a pope, and two Holy Roman Emperors, that I knew he’d be a natural narrator for the sequel to Maddalena, given his privileged position at the Rudolfine court.”
According to Midwest Book Review, My Life with Berti Spranger “is one of those novels that will linger in the mind and memory long after it is finished and set back upon the shelf. Certain to be an enduringly popular addition to personal, community, and academic library Literary Fiction collection…enthusiastically recommended reading.”
A professional artist with works in North America and Europe, Ms. Siroka is currently preparing two exhibitions in Princeton and Toronto. Inspired by Spranger’s original drawings and period prints, she has illustrated the current book and designed its cover.