MTI/MTVA photojournalist Zoltán Balogh won the MÚOSZ (National Association of Hungarian Journalists) Grand Prize at the 39th Hungarian Press Photo Contest for his work entitled The Covid-19 Year in Hungary, while the André Kertész Grand Prize was awarded to Bea Kovács for her series Butterfly Girl. The two Grand Prize winners were announced at the […]
Nearly five years after her death, part of the ashes of Hungarian-born American actress Zsazsa Gabor were laid to rest in the Artists' Plot of the Fiumei Road Cemetery in Budapest this Tuesday. Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, widow of Zsazsa Gabor, in cooperation with the National Heritage Institute and the Hungarian Hollywood Council, brought some […]
Hungarian cinematographer Marcell Rév ('Malcolm & Marie', 'White God') and animation film director Réka Bucsi ('Solar Walk', 'Symphony No. 42') are among the new class of 395 artists and executives who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Animation filmmaker Réka Bucsi is a regular guest at Berlinale. Three […]
The event entitled The Global 'Entangoment' of Central Europe is organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK) and the Institute for Social and European Studies (ISES), in cooperation with the University of Pannonia, the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Sustainability in Kőszeg under the patronage of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO. […]
The Hungarian Dance Academy have joined forces with DVM group, the company responsible for the reconstruction of Dreschler Palace, to evoke the atmosphere of the former Ballet Institute and to pay homage to a building whose name is still eponymous with ballet within the framework of a unique cultural project. The open-air installation entitled ‘The […]
Cultural events await visitors in the ports of the Danube Bend, north of Budapest, for more than two months until the end of August. MAHART PassNave Passenger Shipping Ltd., in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Resources, is organizing the Danube Bend Arts Festival for the first time this year, which will offer a colourful […]
Artworks from seventeen countries were presented at the 7th International Triennial of Textile Art, which opened on Friday afternoon at the Szombathely Art Gallery. In the nationally announced wall and space textile category, there are 72 works on display, 36 in the textile design category, 92 miniature textiles in the international category as well as […]
In the first quarter of 2022, the world's first fully franchised Madame Tussauds will open in Dorottya Street in downtown Budapest, the news site telex.hu reports. The most unique feature of the house in Budapest is that it will be the world's first Madame Tussauds franchise location. Until now, all of these panopticums (22 in […]
Hungarian cinemas' ticket sales dropped by 72% to 4.3 million last year as pandemic restrictions weighed, data compiled by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show. Almost 2.2 million of total ticket sales were at cinemas in the capital, Budapest. Box office revenue declined by 71% to HUF 6.4 billion forints (EUR 18.5m). Cinemas in Hungary […]
The country's first fragrance museum was inaugurated in the Herb Garden of the Pannonhalma Abbey on Sunday, offering an insight into the thousand-year-old Benedictine monastic herbal culture. In the Herb Garden's building 'A', the exhibition spaces of the show manufactory were created and the new essential oil distillation equipment was installed. Building 'B' of the […]
Due to the uncertainties caused by the epidemic situation, Sziget will not take place this year as it did last year. The organisers have announced that one of Europe's biggest festivals, which is Hungary's most important tourism event, is planning a big comeback in 2022. As the festival's website puts it, "Due to the global […]
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature this year. Krasznahorkai's "novels and short stories, written in a unique style, with an impressive visual expressiveness, uninhibited in their search for real and surreal scenes, with cool irony and a keen mind, are well thought out, perfectly written and clearly composed", […]
Lili Horvát's romantic drama ‘Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time’ won the Best Central-Eastern European Film Award at the 45th Cleveland International Film Festival. The jury of American film experts said Lili Horvát's film was a refreshing blend of Italo Calvino and Kieslowski's wit, an ambitious guide to the intricacies of […]
The Hungarian Press Photo Competition and Exhibition has been the largest Hungarian review for the photojournalist profession for more than thirty years. This year’s winning works of 2020 photos were selected by the jury from 2,515 entries. Not surprisingly, the most covered theme in 2020 was the new coronavirus pandemic. In the 'News, event photo' […]
It is a traditional Hungarian Easter Monday fertility ceremony of men sprinkling women with water. This year, people were advised to avoid visiting other households. The male members of the Marcal Dance and Folk Art Ensemble – wearing a mask due to the coronavirus epidemic and keeping proper distance – sprinkled a close relative of […]
