Arts

Textiles and ornamental weapons from the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts' Esterhazy collection will be on display at the China Silk Museum in Hangzhou, the Budapest museum said in statement on Wednesday.

A painting by Hungarian-born painter Ladislao Cheney who moved with his wife to Chile in 1930, was presented to a local museum in Salgotarjan, Cheney's home town, at a ceremony on Wednesday.

Incumbent Szilveszter Okovacs has won the tender to serve as director general of the Budapest Opera House for another five years, Culture and Innovation Minister Janos Csak told a press conference on Friday.

The new building and the ornaments on the facade of the Budapest Ethnography Museum are the focus of an exhibition that opened in the Hungarian pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 on Thursday.

A large-scale exhibition presenting 45 paintings and spanning the oeuvre of renowned Hungarian painter Tivadar Csontvary-Kosztka (1853-1919) will open in the Museum of Fine Arts on Friday.

The largest festival of Hungarian contemporary literature will present 160 publishers at 145 book stands between June 8-11, the head of the Hungarian Publishers' and Booksellers' Association said on Wednesday.

The Valley of Arts festival, Hungary's largest all-arts festival held in three villages north of Lake Balaton between July 21 and 30, will feature some 500 performances spanning literature, theatre and music, organisers said on Tuesday.

Judit Gesko, art historian of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts, has received France's Ordre national de la Legion d'honneur for her efforts in further developing French-Hungarian cultural relations.

Hungary's classical music heritage was on full display at the 2023 InClassica International Music Festival, as dozens of the nation’s musicians travelled to Dubai across the course of the month-long event, delighting concert-goers gathered together from all over the world.

The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts will host a large-scale Renoir exhibition and a show celebrating Hungary's Tivadar Csontvary-Kosztka while the National Gallery will present an exhibition of the oeuvre of Lajos Gulacsy this year, the director general of the two museums said on ...