To think of a sphinx and create

Sculptor György Jovánovics

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author: Gergely Mézes

György Jovánovics, who celebrates his seventieth birthday this year, is extremely pleased that he has been able to exhibit his Relief made in the winter of 2008 together with an altarpiece panel by Sassetta, a master from Sienna. Now he has at last got the go-ahead to erect one of Europe’s largest statues. The monument […]

On the occasion of Klára Garas’s 90th birthday

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author: Orsolya Radványi

Klára Garas has had an extremely rich career in the Museum of Fine Arts where she rose from being a museum attendant to the post of general director. She is still the only woman ever to have become the director of a national museum in Hungary. A doctor of arts and a member of the […]

The museum of past mining

Rózsaszentmárton, at the foot of the Mátra Hills

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author: Tibor Bacsa

The village of Rózsaszentmárton lies in the western Mátra Hills at the south-western edge of Heves County. Mining was a major activity here for six decades. A huge E-330 dredging machine at the edge of the village reminds visitors of those times. The giant equipment as well as the Brown Coal Memorial House in the […]

The Ferenczy Museum before change and renewal

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author: Ádám Sztankay

An exhibition of Renaissance paintings from Bergamo’s Academia Carrara can be seen in the Ferenczy Museum in Szentendre until the end of August. The main theme concerns how the art of north Italian masters influenced the development of the Renaissance in Hungary. The original building of the museum, created in Louis XVI style, was constructed […]

Misunderstanding: a museum on the Danube dam

Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum

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author: Péter György

In 2000 the Danubiana Museum opened in Dunacsúny, on an artificial dam constituting part of the Bős-Nagymaros dam project. It is in the middle of a reservoir in a peculiar world formed as part of the radically changed landscape required for damming. Thus the geographical context of the museum is none other than the scene […]

Art of artists outside art

A brief history of painting from art brut to outsider art

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author: Gábor Martos

Jean Dubuffet was the first to use the expression “Art Brut”, which he coined in 1945. Since 1972 the expression outside art, ‘invented’ by Roger Cardinal, has been mostly used. Before becoming a painter and art theoretician, Jean Dubuffet earned his living in his family business working as a wine dealer in Paris. It was […]

If a picture could tell a story…

The restoration of a 15-16th century altarpiece

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author: Zsuzsanna Mara, painter restorer, Csíki Seklers Museum

The 15-16th century altarpiece The Coronation of Mary is an outstanding item in the ecclesiastical collection of the Csíki Seklers Museum. After all, the Csík Basin is noted for its devotion to Catholicism and its Marian shrine (Csíksomlyó). Some questions about the altarpiece have been answered after a long period of investigation. Although the origin […]

What makes an exhibition effective?

International Forum in Budapest

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author: Henrietta Galambos, head of Legal and Registrars Department and Zsófia Kovács, registrar, Museum of Fine Arts

The International Exhibition Organizers (IEO) association held its annual meeting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest on 23-24 April. The museum was asked by IEO to organise the 2009 event keeping in mind that on each occasion the participants examine exhibition organising and loaning in the region of the organising country. Hence part of […]

Restoring Copper Age ceramics

Vásárhely-Kopáncs

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author: Katalin Tóth and Viktor Csányi archaeologists; Zsuzsanna Molnár Balázs and Nándor Nagy restorers, Tornyai János Museum and Education Centre, Hódmezővásárhely

Restoring Copper Age ceramics – Vásárhely-Kopáncs The archaeological collection in the Tornyai János Museum in the town of Hódmezővásárhely has more than doubled in the past decade. The extremely large quantity of findings discovered at large surface excavations – the majority being ceramics – seriously challenges both archaeologists and restorers. In addition to settlements of […]

About paper restoration

Paper is a historic relic… if properly treated

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author: László Nemes-Takách, Head of Dept. of Paper and Leather Restoration, Academy of Arts-Hungarian National Museum

It can sometimes happen like this … in the morning I step into the restorers’ workshop. Rays of sunshine are streaming in through the huge windows and the white walls beautifully reflect the light. How magnificent and tranquil it would be if it stayed like that! Of course, it cannot be. I first draw the […]

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