The National Reading campaign which was initiated by Polish President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda was held in Poland for the eighth time....
Hungarian graphic shop Studio Nur has won the Red Dot, the world's most prestigious design award in the Brands & Communication category this year.
The Hungarian government has launched a nationwide photo contest called Magyarorszag 365 (Hungary 365), aimed at presenting the values of the country. The government also wishes to strengthen Hungarians' love for their country and their sense of community.
August 20th, one of Hungary's most important national holidays, generated huge interest with its programmes nationwide. The closing event, the popular fireworks spectacle in Budapest,...
Events to commemorate the Hungarian state's founder King St. Stephen began a day and a half ago in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. Concerts are a popular attraction during the extended weekend of one of Hungary's longest established celebrations, with most people looking forward to programmes on 20 August.
Bucharest’s Arc de Triomphe hosts a major exhibition of the work of the secretive artist Banksy. ‘The Art of Banksy' will run in the Romanian capital until the end of October.
Poland celebrates many historical milestones this year, including the 100th anniversary of Polish independence, the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising and the 30th anniversary of the country’s first truly free elections....
On the 100th anniversary of the Greater Poland Uprising, officials in Poznan announced that a museum commemorating this pivotal point in the country’s history is one step closer to becoming reality.
World-renowned German art book publisher Taschen has released a new book with a collection of its picks from the top 100 illustrators around the world....
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted a photo on his social media page where he's seen with the world-famous singer. The photo is entitled You Are My Destiny,...
Remrandt's most famous painting, the Night Watch will be examined and restored on the 350th anniversary of the painter's death. The project started on Monday at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,...
The Hungarian Academy of Arts' contemporary fine art exhibition, titled Verstrichene Zeit – Leaking time, will open in the Museum of Modern Art in Passau on 5 July. The programme is part of the 30 Years in Freedom memorial year in Hungary.
Germany will soon return an artwork to Florence after more than seven decades, according to reports. The still life of a vase of flowers was stolen by German troops from Florence's Uffizi Gallery in 1943, and has been in the possession of a Nazi soldier’s family ever since. The painting could be worth millions of euros.
Szechenyi Prize laureate writer, critic and literary translator Tamas Ungvari, 89, died on Saturday, his family told Hungary’s state news agency MTI. Ungvari taught at leading universities such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Cambridge.
The bills will feature famous Czech singer Karel Gott’s portrait. They will be issued on 14 July, on his 80th birthday.
Art historian Paolo Dal Poggetto has died in his hometown of Florence at the age of 83. Dal Poggetto played a key role in rescuing artworks during 1966 Florence flood. He also uncovered several lost wall drawings by Michelangelo in the Medic Chapel at the San Lorenzo Basilica in Florence. Dal Poggetto was an honorary citizen of Urbino.
A graffiti in downtown Bucharest addresses the issue of violence against women. It shows a lady with a book, whose cover reads: “Home is where a woman is most likely to get killed....
The Lefaucheux revolver that killed Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh goes on auction on June 19 in Paris. The artist was injured by the gun on July 27, 1890, and died from his injuries two days later.
This year's International Film Festival in Shanghai will see four Hungarian movies beginning on Saturday, according to a statement by the Hungarian National Film Fund. The presence of Hungarian works in Asia’s most prestigious film event is a great boon to the country. Visitors can enjoy the 3rd instalment of Valami Amerika, BUEK, Genezis and Getto Balboa at the A-list event.
After Iranian model Negzzia was persecuted by the religious police of the Islamic State over her risque photos, she fled Iran and applied for asylum in France.
Culture fans can enjoy Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian theatre shows, street performances, concerts and social events.
After 36 years of Louis de Funes’s death, a museum dedicated to the actor’s life achievement will open on 31 July in Southern France, in a town called Saint-Raphael....
The UK's Glastonbury Festival is in the news after disinviting a band over a contentious lyric that refers to the British Conservative Party. Killdren pointed out that another band,...
Hollywood actor Nicolas cage has talked about his career, the behind-the-scenes secrets of his work, and his favourite filmmakers at the 18th edition of the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF)....
A lock of hair purportedly from the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London on 11 June. The auction house has a guide price of 15,...
A 7.5-euro coin, designed by architect Alvaro Siza, has entered circulation in Portugal. Siza designed the coin in honour of his colleague Eduardo Souto de Moura. The coin is the latest addition to the “Architecture of Portugal” series of the Banco de Portugal.
The Holocaust survivor portraits have been cut to pieces in an exhibition in Vienna. This is the third attack against the exhibition.
The Leiden Boerhaave Museum, the Dutch national scientific and medical museum won the European Museum of the Year 2019 award in a competition of forty exhibition venues of 17 countries....
From May to November, the coast of Lake Balaton—Hungary’s largest lake—awaits visitors with new and prestigious festivals, cultural programmes, special gastronomic events featuring Hungarian and international performers.
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest ended with a Dutch victory, with the Netherlands also having won the right to organise next year's show. The contest was home to plenty of oddities,...
The foundation stone of a new studio theatre for the Northern Theatre Harag Gyorgy Company has been laid in Satu Mare, Romania. The Hungarian government will subsidise the one-million-euro construction project with nearly 400,000 euros.
The well-established and favourable Hungarian film support system continues to attract top foreign productions, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As the Cannes Film Festival kicked off,...
The 72nd Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off with the premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s zombie film The Dead Don’t Die, on Tuesday night. The jury's work will be particularly demanding this year,...
The Prague City Council would issue a decree stating that individuals in animal costumes are not categorised as “street performers.” Recently,...
Paris is celebrating the 130th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, which locals call the “vieille dame", or old lady, with three days of events.
For five years, a ten-year-old from northern France has sold his paintings, and fed homeless people with the proceeds.
Spotify, one of the world’s largest music streaming platforms, has launched a campaign to get as many people as possible to vote in the European parliamentary elections at the end of May....
The Lithuanian national pavilion’s project entitled Sun & Sea has won the Golden Lion award for the best national exhibit of the 58th Venice Biennale. The interational jury named the American Arthur Jafa as the best artist of the show.
Visitors will get a chance to talk to “living books” during the Wiener Festwochen, the spring festival of the Austrian capital. The festival will be held between 10 May and 16 June and will host an array of theatrical,...
The Colosseum’s security is tightened, after another tourist, this time a Hungarian, attempted to carve his initials into the wall of the ancient amphitheatre....
The Polish Film Spring is being organised by the Budapest Polish Institute in Hungary between 9 and 15 May, this year for the 25th time. The guests of honour for this year’s programme are Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Olgierd Lukaszewicz and Zygmunt Malanowicz.
The Spanish Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum can retain a Camille Pissarro painting seized by the Nazis from a Jewish woman in 1939, a California court ruled....
The Prado Museum in Madrid has been granted the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, in its 200th anniversary year. Cultural programmes linked to the Prado's jubilee will be held in more than 30 cities throughout Spain.
A strand of hair said to have belonged to the Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci will be exhibited in his home town on Thursday. Scientists plan to carry out DNA tests on the hair to reveal the truth.
The names of the jury members of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival is out. The list of films has been available for two weeks, and award winners will be disclosed on the last day of the festival,...
Polish demonstrators protested the removal of a video of a woman eating a banana provocatively from the National Museum in Warsaw on Monday. The new museum director, an appointee of the conservative government, had withdrawn the artwork which he called "indecent". Up to a thousand people took part in the demonstration, according to local media.
China is cancelling the events of all Czech cultural organisations whose name is related to Prague. Te Chinese authorities are reacting to some earlier menifestations of Prague's mayor,...
Visitors can only see the large-scale Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre in Paris if they register for tickets in advance, the museum said in a statement.
The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has been organised for decades, where every year one of the most prominent European television awards, the Crystal Nymph,...
A 400-year-old Bible stolen from a Pittsburgh library has been found in the Netherlands. Several hundred rare books, maps and atlases were stolen from the Carnegie Library last year....
Following the fire that destroyed the cathedral’s roof structure and spire, the aim is to complete the reconstruction as soon as possible, declared the French head of state in a statement in the wake of the tragedy....
There are not enough trees that are old or large enough to be felled and used for the reconstruction of Notre Dame. Experts believe the cathedral will “never be the same....
Archaeologists have uncovered a 3500-year-old tomb and a coffin with a mummy dating back to at least 1069 BC, at two locations in Luxor, South Egypt, according to Egypttoday....
A new perfume museum opened by the famous factory Fragonard promises visitors a tour of three millenia of fragrances. Visitors can see and smell around 400 bottles of perfume and learn about the European history of perfume.
It's indisputable that besides the firemen fighting against the flames, the centre of attention was turned towards the man called the saviour of Notre-Dame’s treasures after the catastrophe of Monday night....
90 percent of the artworks have been successfully rescued from the burning Notre-Dame, and after thorough examination they will be transferred to the Louvre,...
The World Photography Organisation has announced the list of winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 photo contest. The Photographer of the Year award went to Italian photographer Federico Borella.
The only item on the French government's agenda today is the fire at the Notre Dame cathedral. The main goal after the tragedy is to rebuild it as soon as possible....
The National Dance Company of Korea will perform the superlative traditional Korean dance piece Scent of Ink in Budapest on 18 April.
Zoltan Maga received a huge round of applause at the end of his concert at the world’s most prestigious music concert hall. The famous Hungarian violinist played a sold out concert in the Isaac Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall in New York....
30,000 year-old cave drawings were found by archaeologists in the Istrian peninsula. These drawings are the first of their kind in Croatia and second in the Balkans....
Russian cellist world champion Alexander Buzlov welcomes Dvorak with beer and Czech romance. Cello Concerto in B minor is one of the most important pieces of music history,...
Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet in London, based on the findings of a research published on Saturday. Evidence seems to indicate that the playwright lived near the site of today's Gherkin office complex,...
Bence Mate’s photo of a frog, titled Survival Instinct, won first prize at this year’s World Press Photo contest in category ‘Nature, singles’. The photos of the Hungarian nature photographer show frogs with their legs removed as they struggle to the surface, after being thrown back into the water strewn with frogspawn. Over 4,700 photographers submitted a total of 80,000 entries to the contest. The jury nominated 43 photographers from 25 countries in the various categories.
From Cairo to Beijing, the walls of 22 foreign Hungarian institutions were covered by colourful post-its on Thursday, 11 April. The quotes from poems translated to each country’s language were meant to lure foreign visitors,...
The winner of the 2019 International Man Booker Award will be announced in London on May 21. The most prestigious British literary award, founded to recognise works by foreign authors translated to English,...
The grand piano developed by virtuoso Gergely Boganyi with the help of Hungarian engineers has been presented to the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The piano arrived at one of Germany's most visited museums ahead of a concert performance by the Kossuth Prize winner.
Slovakia's president-elect Zuzana Caputova attended a Bob Dylan concert with her partner in Prague on Tuesday.
The city's mayor has proposed the idea, which the town council will vote on in the coming days. Local representatives have already asked the diocese of Kosice to contact the Vatican to authorise Saint Elizabeth's naming as the Slovak city's patron saint.
The giant black babies return to the television tower in Prague. The first two of the giant babies crawling on the tower are now remounted, the rest will follow as the weather allows....
Sunday afternoon will see the beginning of the summer season at the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt with guided family tours and the opening of two contemporary fine arts exhibitions on display until 31 December.
But only for a while, and not completely. The well-known Parisian monument is to be wrapped by the world-famous artist Christo from 6-19 April 2020. The arch will be wrapped in 25 thousand square metres of recycled artificial material and 7,...
An international and experience-driven new music education methodology for nursery school and elementary school pupils, utilising digital tools, is to be introduced in the EU....
The Lefaucheux gun with which famous painter van Gogh committed suicide is to be auctioned off. The Drout Auction House in Paris expects a price between EUR 40,...
Thirteen Hungarian designers were invited to the Milan Design Week, including internationally successful Adamlamp and rug maker genius Kata Brinkus, known for her brilliant shearing technique....
The Hungarian music thematic weekend began in Paris with the first performer, Balogh Kalman Gipsy Cimbalom Band. The musical event takes place in the Philharmonie de Paris concert hall,...
A recent find of a fast-food diner discovered in Pompeii 5 had a trade sign and even branding. People of the ancient world supped their snacks in a milieu of painted Nymphs and artistic scenes of everyday life....
Ipoly Feszt, a series of art events will take place for the first time in villages by the River Ipoly between 21 and 23 June. The new and free festival will be held in seven venues,...
Coffee table from an airplane window and a comfortable design armchair from an airplane nose. Two art lovers, engineers of Airbus, the French aircraft manufacturer, developed their extraordinary and innovative idea dreamed up in 2018, named “A Piece of Sky”, in a start-up in a Toulouse incubator house. They create design furniture from parts of Airbus models that have been deemed wrecks.
Tate Modern became the most-visited museum in the UK last year: its exhibitions attracted nearly 5.9 million visitors. With this, it took the top spot from the former leader,...
The establishment of a platform and network of national minority theatres in the Danube countries was announced by the Romanian Office for Inter-ethnic Relations on Wednesday....
Germany had to return two paintings while the US sent back one artpiece to their respective heirs, as the artworks had been seized by the Nazis from their families. One painting found a new home in Germany, the other two ended up in Chile.
The famous Lennon Wall in Prague has been revitalised by Czech and visiting artists this month to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of communism during an event called ‘30 years of freedom’.
It was fifty years ago to the day that Yoko Ono and John Lennon staged their first public Bed-In. They stayed in bed for a full week receiving members of the press in their Amsterdam Hilton suit with the aim of promoting love and protesting against wars....
Arthur Brand, known as the Indiana Jones of the art treasure scene, found a lost painting by Pablo Picasso. The painting depicting Dora Maar, the painter’s love,...
Budapest Spring Festival is to begin in a few weeks in the Hungarian capital. One of the most important art events in the region has published a new issue of its magazine,...
Naked clown and Bridal Dance; the Israeli Hungarian cultural season will last seven months and started on 15th March. Over the season, more than fifty programmes are available from the diversity of the Hungarian culture....
The third part of the documentary “Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven”, about Syria, by Hungarian filmmaker Beatrix Siklosi has been nominated in the category of Best Documentary at the Orlando International Christian Film Festival (ICFF).
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Eotvos, Adam Fischer and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra - just a few names from the list of the performers of the next season of Budapest Palace of Arts....
An international design exhibition called “Rings in Water” is opening in the Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art on 22 March.
Martin Pacsai, the student of the Budapest Business School has won the Eastern European finals of the Olivier Roellinger international chef contest.
The exhibition “Legendary Treasures of Incas” presenting objects of extremely high value has been opened in the Hungarian capital. The main purpose of the exhibition is to make people familiar with the history and culture of the Incas through the beautiful gold and silver exhibits.
It is more than a simple piece of clothing. The white shirt has been autographed by Hollywood stars at the Oscars party.
Emir Kusturica awarded the Hungarian movie ‘Bad Poems’ (‘Rossz versek’) at the International Monte Carlo Film Festival. Director Gábor Reisz wanted to render the actualities of life in Hungary in his movie.