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Hungarians in Margat

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author: Gergely Buzás, archaeologist, King Matthias Museum

The Syrian-Hungarian Archaeological Mission has been engaged in explorations at the Crusader fortress of Margat in Syria since 2007 and is currently the largest Hungarian-led archaeological expedition abroad. Numerous researchers and volunteers are participating in the work under the auspices of the Péter Pázmány Catholic University. The interdisciplinary project involves history, archaeology, art history, architectural […]

Saving the Zangla Fortress

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author: Balázs Irimiás, architect, chairman of the board of trustees, Csoma Room Foundation

Every summer since 2008 under the auspices of the Csoma Room Foundation research and rescue operations have been undertaken in Zanskar, located in a hidden valley of the Indian Himalayas, in connection with relics relating to the 19th-century Hungarian explorer and linguist Sándor Kőrösi Csoma. The project began on a private initiative and is chiefly […]

Fluctuat nec mergitur

The Grand Louvre project and expansion of the Fine Arts Museum

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author: Academician Miklós Szabó, classical archaeologist

Rather than architectural and technical aspects, I would like to touch on strategic questions. Since the Fine Arts Museum’s temporary exhibitions and spaces serving the public are to be located under Heroes’ Square, clearly a new situation arises as regards use of the ‘old’ building, allowing for a radical reorganisation of the permanent exhibitions, storerooms […]

The miraculous adventures of Munkácsy’s huge paintings

Christ before pilate, Golgota, Ecce Homo

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author: Miklós Szentkirályi, Munkácsy Prize-winning restorer

The ceaseless wanderig of Munkácsy’s Trilogy is unique in the international history of art collection, and it is little short of miraculous that the three paintings survived their ordeal. Possibly Munkácsy himself never thought that his huge works, which together are 90 square metres in size, would move across Europe and America for a century. […]

Pécs exhibition recalls Hungarian ‘revolutionaries’ at the Bauhaus

Pioneers of Modernism

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author: Éva Bajkay, art historian and a curator of the exhibition

Germany’s Bauhaus was one of the most important cradles of Modernism. Inherent in the conception of the Berlin architect Walter Gropius, was not only the union of artistic genres, craftsmanship and later increasingly modern technical achievement, but also workshop experimentation with new principles. Thus young people rejecting the academic and seeking the new were drawn […]

Was the project Pécs European Capital of Culture 2010 a success or a failure from the aspect of exhibitions?

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Tamás Szalay, Cultural Director of the Pécs 2010 Management Centre: Success or failure? It has been successful from the aspect of the town and art, yet it’s not so clear regarding the ECC project. Mistaken communication focused on investments related to the project, thus delays inevitably became key issues. Hungarians in the Bauhaus and Pécs-Fünfkirchen-Pecuh […]

Toronto’s cultural rebirth – museums for the future– 21st-century museum expansion, Canadian style

Canadian Renaissance architectural project of recent years

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author: Orsolya Radványi

The city of Toronto is working hard to position itself on the cultural map of the world, as is shown by the construction fever of the past decade. Walking in its centre you are greeted by large-scale, hyper-modern wonders with extravagant façades or strictly functional buildings mainly constructed from glass and metal, all a product […]