Category: History and the Arts

GROWL – YUGO-HUNGARIAN HOWL

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

BÉLA BARTÓK: PICTURES OF A LIFE – PART I

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

ART DECO SYMPOSIUM IN BUDAPEST

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,

WORLD LANGUAGE WITH AN ACCENT – ART DECO IN CENTRAL EUROPE

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