Nádasdy Castle, which reopened in August 2021, has welcomed its 150,000th visitor. The Tudor-style monument and the 29-hectare park, located in Nádasdladány, 80 kilometers southwest of Budapest, have become an extremely popular new, independent tourist destination, the National Heritage Development Nonprofit Ltd. (NÖF) has announced. In the framework of the National Mandsion Program and the […]
The Liszt Academy of Music will launch a comprehensive IT development with the support of the EU Restoration Fund, with more than HUF 1.2 billion, the Liszt Academy of Music told the state news agency MTI. The Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music (Liszt Ferenc Zeneakadémia) has successfully applied for the call for proposals entitled "Infrastructure […]
József Rippl-Rónai's painting ‘The Garden of the Castle of Geszt’ broke the painter's lifetime record by hitting HUF 300 million at the winter auction of the Judit Virág Gallery in Budapest Monday evening. With this sum, the painting, painted in 1912, took second place in the Hungarian auction records after Tivadar Csontváry-Kosztka's ‘Mysterious Island’. Rippl-Rónai's […]
Ágnes Verebics' Globeface in the picture category and Botond Polgár's Pártorzó [Pair torso] in the sculpture category were the winners of the Fine Art Hungary – Artwork of the Year 2022 program series, the organizers told the state news agency MTI on Sunday. As the statement recalled, the Fine Art Hungary program series was launched […]
Runaway inflation, rising energy prices and changing audience habits are posing extreme challenges for cinemas, including Cinema City. However, the country's biggest cinema chain has no plans to cut the number of screenings, but expects overheads to rise further after January, the business news site napi.hu reports. There are currently no plans to raise prices […]
On the occasion of the 220th anniversary of the founding of the National Széchényi Library (OSZK), a new permanent exhibition (in English and Hungarian), entitled Essence, has been opened. At the opening ceremony on Thursday a message by the President of the Republic, Katalin Novák, was read according to which the birth of OSZK has […]
In 2022, Hungarian cinema attendance will not return to its pre-pandemic level, with this year's cinema revenues so far failing to double those of 2021. And the balance is billions of euros below the revenues of 2019 and the years before, the financial website penzcentrum.hu reports. There are a number of reasons why cinemas are […]
Budapest is the tenth-best city for antique lovers in Europe, scoring 7.02 out of 10. That is according to the latest study by Confused.com (Q3 2022), where research reveals the best cities in Europe for bargain hunters. In the antique index, the capital city scores highly for the quality of its antique stores (4.40/5), ranking […]
A ceremony was held at the Madách Theater this Friday night in Budapest after the 900th performance of The Phantom of the Opera. The theatre premiered the musical, directed by Tamás Szirtes, on 30 May 2003. According to a statement by Madách Theater, their team and director Tamás Szirtes had the honor of presenting the […]
A painting by Béla Kondor and one by Ilona Keserü sold for over a HUF one hundred million each at the first contemporary auction at the Kieselbach Gallery in Budapest. According to the gallery's statement, the auction, which was attended by a large number of visitors on Friday evening, set unprecedented records in Hungary. Béla […]
The VOLT Festival in Sopron will be cancelled in 2023. In a statement sent to the state news agency MTI on Friday, the organizers justified the decision with the uncertain economic environment. Tamás Kádár, the head of Sziget Organizing Office organizing major festivals such as Sziget, Balaton Sound and Telekom VOLT, stressed in the statement […]
The Best Actress award was given to Natasa Stork, the lead actress of the Hungarian movie ‘Ice Cream Can Be Dangerous’ at the New York Film Week, the Hungarian National Film Institute reports. Fanni Szilágyi's first feature film, which will be released in mid-November, follows the tumultuous relationship of an identical twins, both played by […]
An international seminar at Budapest’s Metropolitan University is organized as part of the World Press Photo 2022 exhibition on October 29 this year. As an introduction to the seminar, the University notes that the world today is facing new problems and dilemmas. These are challenges for an entirely new generation, who have a whole range […]
UNESCO declared Hollókő, a village NE of Budapest, a World Heritage Site 35 years ago this year, and a photo album was published to mark the anniversary. The publication ‘The Heart of Hollókő - Values, Beauties and Experiences of the Living World Heritage Village" was presented in Budapest this Thursday, the village council informed the […]
The Hungarian Jazz Federation has announced that Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Kossuth Prize-winning pianist, composer, national artist and outstanding figure of Hungarian jazz, passed away at dawn on Sunday at the age of 79. His person is intertwined with the development and expansion of Hungarian jazz, and his passing is an irreplaceable loss, they wrote. Béla […]
