• The bottom of the pyramid
    Arts & Culture|26/08/2010

    The bottom of the pyramid

    It would be a mistake to liquidate the National Cultural Fund of Hungary; however, its new president, Marcell Janovics, who took up his position at the beginning of August, believes that the introduction of certain changes cannot be delayed.

  • Arts & Culture|13/08/2010

    "TRESPASSERS W?"

    The newly introduced system of support could lead to rationalization for alternative and independent theatre and dance troupe organizations applying for funds, although for the time being the opposite is happening: even established groups have found themselves in difficulties.

  • Arts & Culture|13/08/2010

    Sensational world record: Budapest as it has never been seen before

    Young Hungarians have a set a world record: they have made the largest and highest resolution cyclorama in the world.

  • Arts & Culture|13/08/2010

    A unique Hungarian record

    A record number of films and awards were celebrated by Hungary at the Sarajevo film festival. Young Hungarian filmmakers were awarded five prizes.

  • Arts & Culture|06/08/2010

    Restaurant

    Who would have thought that we owe the restaurant as such to the (Great) French Revolution?

  • Wasted millions - Help could again be forthcoming from abroad
    Arts & Culture|20/07/2010

    Wasted millions - Help could again be forthcoming from abroad

    The director-general of the Opera House did not extend the contract of the acting arts director. The news lent emphasis to the question that has been hovering in the air in relation to the country’s top opera house: what will happen to the institution?

  • Hungary has been hidden away
    Arts & Culture|20/07/2010

    Hungary has been hidden away

    Scene Ungarn, the Hungarian festival in North Rhine Westphalia, has not exactly enjoyed resounding success. What follows is four days of personal experience of the Ruhr, the Germans’ “capital of culture”.

  • Arts & Culture|20/07/2010

    Roaming the Castle district

    As a child, he only ever visited the Castle district when he was taken for a short walk there, but recently he managed to make up for it: Mátyás Sárközi, a member of the BBC’s former Hungarian department.

  • Arts & Culture|13/07/2010

    Hunt for masterpieces

    Two leading Budapest auction houses, the Kieselbach Gallery and the Judit Virág Gallery, have organised Wanted, parallel exhibitions of large-scale photographic reproductions of latent paintings.

  • Arts & Culture|13/07/2010

    A lot of work, little recognition

    There are very few professions in Hungary today which are similar to literary translation. The greatest problems are the lack of higher education-level training and professional reviewing of of literary translation, even though both would be easy to remedy.

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