LONDON (REUTERS).- Robert Capa once said “It’s not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian,” and a new London exhibition on five leading figures of the medium shows that he was only partly joking. “Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the …
Hungarian Photographers in Frame in United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition
LONDON (REUTERS).- Robert Capa once said “It’s not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian,” and a new London exhibition on five leading figures of the medium shows that he was only partly joking. “Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the …
Ludwig Museum in Budapest Presents László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light
BUDAPEST.- László Moholy-Nagy is a world-famous figure of twentieth-century avant-garde art. His visual art and theoretical works, photographs, films, educational activities and photograms – taken without a camera and now synonymous with his name – w…
Ludwig Museum in Budapest Presents László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light
BUDAPEST.- László Moholy-Nagy is a world-famous figure of twentieth-century avant-garde art. His visual art and theoretical works, photographs, films, educational activities and photograms – taken without a camera and now synonymous with his name – w…
Sotheby’s German, Austrian & Central European Paintings Sale In May
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London Sale of 19th Century European Paintings on Wednesday, 18 May, 2011 will bring together some 163 works by artists from no fewer than 15 countries: among them Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Italy, France, Switzer…
Restituted Work Leads Sotheby’s German, Austrian and Central European Paintings Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London Sale of 19th Century European Paintings on Wednesday, 18 May, 2011 will bring together some 163 works by artists from no fewer than 15 countries: among them Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Italy, France, Switzer…
SING! Mladen Stilinović Retrospective at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
BUDAPEST.- Mladen Stilinović (1947, Belgrade) starting his career in the early seventies, is one of the most significant representatives of Central European neo-avant-garde art. The retrospective show in Ludwig Museum is his first exhibition of su…
Historians from Canadian Archivists’ Association Want Communist Files Protected
BUDAPEST (AP).- People spied on by Hungary’s communist-era secret police could decide the future of the surveillance reports under a government proposal historians say would damage the country’s ability to know about its past. The regime’s network of i…
Hungarian Government Asks United States Court to Reject Looted Art Lawsuit
BUDAPEST (AP).- The Hungarian government on Wednesday asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit by the heirs of a prominent Jewish collector who are seeking the return of art worth over $100 million seized during the Holocaust. The Ministry of National D…
Photojournalist Lucien Aigner’s Work Re-Emerges in DeCordova Museum Exhibition
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announce the first major museum showing of Lucien Aigner’s photography since the 1980s. Born in Hungary, Lucien Aigner was a pioneering photojournalist in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s who immigrat…