Bogo Zupančič has been appointed new director of the Museum of Architecture and Design, succeeding Matevž Čelik, who has been at the helm of the museum since 2010. Zupančič was picked among seven applicants in an open call by Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti.

The Prešeren Theatre in Kranj has cancelled the 50th Week of Slovenian Drama, the theatre's annual festival, which was postponed from spring to autumn due to the epidemic. The festival was to be held between 7 and 15 November.

Jože Spacal, the internationally acclaimed artist who for almost 30 years worked as a set designer for the precursor to the Slovenian public broadcaster, has died, aged 81.

Commenting on the government plans to evict independent producers and non-governmental organisations from the state-owned premises in a former military compound in Metelkova Street in Ljubljana, the newspaper Dnevnik says on Friday that after almost thirty years, Metelkova has again become a symbolic breaking point.

Singer-songwriter, musician and poet Vlado Kreslin is the recipient of this year's Ježek Award, an accolade celebrating creative and witty radio and television oeuvres and achievements. Kreslin is instilling a spirit of freedom, solidarity, tolerance and joie de vivre in Slovenia's cultural sphere, the judging panel has said.

The Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana will present a selection of the oeuvre of internationally acclaimed product and interior designer Nika Zupanc in an exhibition opening on Thursday. The attendance will be limited to groups of five due to coronavirus restrictions.

The Slovenian Cinematheque will open its new exhibition space with a display dedicated to Italian director Federico Fellini in Friday. Alongside the exhibition, the Cinematheque also planned a Fellini retrospective, as a way to honour the centenary of his birth. However, screenings have had to be postponed due to the coronavirus situation.