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The Hungarian film, The Turin Horse, director Béla Tarr’s dark vision of the end in a microcosm of bleak tedium, has won the FIPRESCI international critics' award at the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival.
January 26, 2012
The Portico Quartet, a group of UK musicians who fuse jazz and indie music, will perform at Budapest’s Palace of Arts (MUPA) on January 25.
January 26, 2012
The Hungarian Cultural Center in New York is hosting an exhibition on the forced migration of peoples in the wake of World War II.
January 26, 2012
A design by Red Balloon, a group of architects based in Budapest, is among the winners of the EUROPAN 11 international architecture and city design competition.
January 26, 2012
The Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf's new film Just the Wind will not show at this year’s Hungarian Film Week, on February 2-5, as it has been invited to compete at the Berlinale, just a few days later.
January 25, 2012
The Sputnik Shipping Company, a recently established Hungarian theatre troupe comprised of actors at the start of their careers, is brining a Midsummer Night’s Dream to the Schauspielhaus in Graz.
January 25, 2012
The HOPPart Hungarian theatre company is bringing its production of Coriolanus to Romania and France this spring.
January 25, 2012
The Hungarian National Museum has opened an exhibition on the life of the Swedish businessman and diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
January 25, 2012
The Hungarian county of Veszprém presented on Friday its candidates for inclusion on Hungary’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
January 24, 2012
Hungary’s first crowd funding portal, dubbed kezdheted.hu, which translates as “you can start it”, was presented in Budapest on Tuesday, a day before its launch.
January 24, 2012
A Hungarian cultural institute ought to be established in the “capital of Transylvania”, the Romanian city of Cluj Napoca, in addition to ones in Bucharest and Sfantu Gheorghe, but a favourable stand on the matter will be needed from the Romanian side too, Balassi Institute Director Pál Hatos said.
January 24, 2012
If the city of Pécs wins the right to host Europe’s biggest chorus event, the Europa Cantat Festival, financing could come from the National Resources Ministry under a draft declaration of intent, according to a report on the city’s homepage.
January 24, 2012
A musical stage adaptation of the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s film Pleasant Days is showing at Theater Oberhausen in Germany in January.
January 23, 2012
Artists from Slovakia, Finland and France will participate at the National Textiles Convention in the Hungarian city of Békéscsaba for the first time in the professional event’s 13- year history.
January 23, 2012
The well known Hungarian soprano Krisztina Laki is organising a concert, free of charge to the public, in Budapest’s District IV city hall to mark the end of a master class.
January 23, 2012
Budapest A38, an entertainment venue docked in the Danube, will host an evening of new music from Austria dubbed Noises from the Neighbour on January 14.
January 23, 2012
The Acts of the Pit Bull, a joint production by the Trafó, the Füge and the Titkos Társulat, will show six times at the Bobigny MC93 cultural centre in Paris Between February 9 and 12.
January 23, 2012
This year, Hungary is marking the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
January 23, 2012
Budapest’s Trafó Gallery is showing an exhibition of photography-based works by Thobias Fäldt and Klara Källström, based in Sweden, as well as by the Hungarian Miklós Surányi.
January 20, 2012
The Európa Pont in Budapest’s Millenáris Park is showcasing Danish culture in January as Denmark takes over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
January 20, 2012