Category: History and the Arts

In homage to A. G., J. Sz. and all the others I saw the bolshiest minds of my minority in the wreckage of madness, stripped hysterical naked in night streets named after heroes of the people, pissing at saplings and gabbling politics in the silent dawn, looking for a last

135: The Bartók and Kodály Anniversaries There is no question that Hungarian cultural memory exploits every occasion to celebrate the twin stars of its 20th century music, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. The two composers were born a year apart, and their entire career passed in a fruitful professional and

“This is Budapest”, began the live radio dispatch of legendary Dutch reporter Alfred van Sprang shortly before eight that morning. Just the tone of those opening three words, historian Hans Olink relates, stopped Dutch men, women and children in their tracks as they began their day of rest. They held

The Budapest-based Hudec Cultural Foundation (HCF) was the initiator and organiser of the Art Deco Budapest Symposium taking place in January 2017. The Hudec Cultural Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Budapest. Activities focus on organising cultural and educational events based on the life and works of László Hudec,

As a global phenomenon, Art Deco is principally known for representativeness. With the advent of Art Deco in the 1930s glass, chrome, mirror, mahogany, and marble were no more the privilege of a certain elite: they became available for the middle class. In this sense, Art Deco is a symbol