Play Escape

PUBLIC ART OBJECT

We live together with objects which have been in our visual environment for some time now, however, it would be difficult to define their functions, purpose or significance. Here is one of them, made by Bori...

The sphere of humans

OBJECT

The rearranged Egyptian Exhibition in the Museum of Fine Art places the objects into a different perspective.

Interview with Zsolt Petrányi, a curator of the National Gallery

SHIFTS

The exhibition Lépésváltás (Shifts) opened in The National Gallery in October, 2013. It displays a selection of works from the period following 1945. The curator tells us about the challenges of the...

The two chairs and a missed chance at the castle

TWO POETS: ADY and GOGA

The Octavio Goga museum and the Museum of Literature in Budapest have created an exhibition in Csucsa, Romania.

Interest and supersession

Kassák and Kassák 2 - Exhibition

In the northern district of Buda, in a little museum named after Lajos Kassák, a revolutionary avant-garde artist, an exhibition devoted to the eponym has just opened.

New clothes for the museum

NEW STYLE

In early March the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest launched its communication campaign. We have gone to find out about the new strategy, the hows and the whys.

Everything is clear

The „Liget Budapest” project

Last Monday Eszter Götz went to the Museum of Fine Arts to learn about the international tender for the architectural design of the new museum complex.

Commerce or consumer culture?

REVIEW

The exhibition on the history of trade has been extended by new objects in the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism. Beautiful objects, interiors with ambience, interactivity. Nevertheless, Marianna Berényi...

Hau(nefer), the lector priest

Fragments of an ancient Egyptian relief

The Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a relief fragment of a tomb dating back to ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom period.

The eighth church of Szentendre in Buda

EXHIBITION

With a recently opened exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery, the oeuvre of Endre Bálint, the greatest Hungarian avant-garde painter, who was born 100 years ago, has made its way where it surely...