art

14/12/2014

Lost-and-found Bereny painting sold for EUR 226,500

Budapest (MTI) – A painting by Hungarian painter Robert Bereny (1887-1953), recently found after 90 years of it thought missing, has been sold for 70 million […]
14/12/2014

Turning Points Exhibition in Hungarian National Gallery

Turning Points is a contemporary art project created together with foreign cultural institutes operating in Hungary. Twenty-six artists from sixteen countries from Great Britain to Israel, […]
30/11/2014

Hungarian artist recycles wood waste and creates magnificent sculptures

2014 has been a very busy year for Miklos Gabor Szoke so far. He is one of the most popular contemporary Hungarian artists, who has recently […]
27/11/2014

A long-lost Hungarian painting finally found

Robert Berenyi’s ’Sleeping Woman with a Black Vase’ got lost 90 years ago. The avant-garde artist was part of the ’Nyolcak’ artistic movement, and was considered […]
26/11/2014

World-Famous Literary Scholar Gives Lecture in Budapest

Dr. Ernst van Alphen, the highly acclaimed professor of literature visits Budapest on the 27th of November, and gives a lecture at Holocaust Museum, writes hvg.hu. […]
25/11/2014

6 Exhibitions That Are Worth Visiting Before Christmas

As it is almost winter and getting cold, outdoor activities are slowly pushed to the background. It is time for exhibitions, so here are six interesting […]
24/11/2014

Budapest to Host Israeli Film Festival

Budapest, November 24 (MTI) – Nine feature-length films and documentaries will be shown at the Israeli Film Week in Budapest between December 4 and 9, the […]
20/11/2014

Famous Hungarian Posters on Auction

Budapest Poster Gallery displays 186 posters this December. You can purchase political propaganda placards, advertisment posters and many movie posters on the auction held on the […]
19/11/2014

Nobel Laureate Writer Greeted on 85th Birthday

Budapest (MTI) – Hungary’s Nobel laureate writer Imre Kertesz was celebrated on his 85th birthday in Budapest’s Petofi Literary Museum on Tuesday. Related articles: Kertesz: Talk […]
19/11/2014

Hungarian Photographer as the Most Popular Artist of the Paris Photo Fair

André Kertész, one of the most influental photographers of the 20th century, was the ”star” of the Paris Photo Fair. His works displayed on the auction […]
12/11/2014

‘Turning Points’ Exhibition on 20th Century to Open at National Gallery

Budapest (MTI) – The history of the 20th century is presented by 26 artists from 16 countries at an exhibition to open at the Hungarian National […]
10/11/2014

Városliget in Colours

Budapest City Park (Városliget) changes colours, and it is not only due to the falling autumn leaves. ColorfulLiget – Let’s Colour Budapest City Park! contest challenged […]
02/11/2014

Award-Winning Short Films Accessible Online

If you missed Primanima World Festival of First Animations which has just finished screening on the 1st of November, you can watch the award-winning works online, […]
02/11/2014

Choose these Contemporary Hungarian Authors in Cold November Evenings

As the days are getting shorter and the nights lenghten, the warmth and the cosiness of our home becomes more and more inviting, especially if we […]
30/10/2014

House Speaker Opens Budapest Rembrandt Exhibition

Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – A major exhibition entitled Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age was formally opened by the speaker of Hungarian parliament in the […]
26/10/2014

SOON – Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age Exhibition in Budapest

Rembrandt and the Painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a large-scale exhibition to run in the Museum of Fine Arts from 1 November surveys the period […]
26/09/2014

Museum Festival Offers 1,700 Programmes

(MTI) – This autumn’s festival of museums will offer over 1,700 events at 168 locations nationwide between Sept. 29 and Nov. 9. Miklos Cseri, deputy state […]
20/08/2014

We Can Make Colorful a Microdistrict in Budapest – VIDEO

FŐTÁV initiates a project about decorating heating wires in Újpest, varosban.blog.hu says. Concrete block of flats are not the most beautiful parts of Hungary, but one […]
19/08/2014

Neopaint’s Latest Mural Painting in Budapest

Neopaint have hit on some idea that nobody else has ever thought of. There was nothing to do with all the countless sidewalls of Budapest when […]
31/07/2014

LMP calls on national film fund to account for “missing funds”

Budapest, July 31 (MTI) – The small opposition LMP party has asked the Hungarian National Film Fund and the government commissioner in charge of filmmaking to […]