The Budapest Spring Festival 2016, launched this Friday, offers a number of programs in a variety of categories ranging from orchestral concerts, opera and dance performances to contemporary crossover productions between April 8 and 24.

Porcelain objects made in the world-renowned porcelain manufacture in Herend, Western Hungary, are packed in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest to take them for a two-year special traveling exhibition in five Japanese cities.

The winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in literature, Hungarian novelist Imre Kertész has died at the age of 86. The novel Fatelessness he received the Nobel Prize for is said to be one of the most unsettling and credible works of art about the Holocaust.

The traditional Hungarian Easter ceremony of men sprinkling women with water was one of the elements presented to visitors in the Sóstó Museum Village in the outskirts of the noertheastern Hungarian city of Nyíregyháza on Easter Monday.

The head of the Public Service University in Budapest, András Patyi and that of Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, Matthew D. Shank signed have signed a five-year agreement on cooperation primarily in law enforcement and cybernetics.

The Son of Saul, a recent winner at the Golden Globe Awards, a movie by Hungarian director László Nemes Jeles has been given the Academy Award in the foreign-language film category by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Hungarian University of Fine Arts opened a 19th century photo art exhibition in Budapest in order to introduce to the public the pictures of studio photographers whose work was largely ignored by photographic historians in the 20th century.

Five days to go before the 88th annual Academy Awards and my interviewee, producer Gábor Sipos, along with the whole crew that is “traumatized in a very positive way,” have high hopes of seeing their film win the Academy Award.

World-renowned Spanish tenor Placido Domingo was the star guest of the Budapest Opera Ball held this Saturday in Budapest. The theme of the event this year was Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the death of the English playwright.

One of the most popular and spectacular winter events, the Busó festival has begun in Mohács, S Hungary near the Serbian border. Going back to medieval roots, the march of people in frightening costumes is supposed to scare away winter.

2,492 photos were entered into this year's Hungarian Press Photo contest by 240 photographers. The top award was gien by the jury to István Fazekas of the business weekly HVG for his series of photos about migrants crossing Hungary.

The Son of Saul, a fresh Golden Globe recepient movie by Hungarian director László Nemes Jeles has been mominated by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for an Academy Award in the best foreign-language film category.

The 'Son of Saul', a film directed by Hungary's László Nemes Jeles won the Golden Globe Award as the Best Motion Picture in the Foreign Language category in Los Angeles this Sunday. The movie is the first ever Hungarian film to have received this distinction.

Academy Award winner Hungarian cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond passed away on the first day of 2016 in the United States at the age of 85, the American entertainment weekly reported this Sunday. He had 100 movies to his credit as a cameraman since 1953.

Ada, a northern Serbian village predominantly populated by ethnic Hungarians, was the venue of the celebration of winter solstice on the night of December 21. The event, called 'karacsun', was organized by local organizations cherishing ancient traditions.