Hungarian Studies in London
Pushkin House, London’s oldest Russian cultural society, has a couple of forthcoming events with a Friday Circular theme:
Sun 21 October 2007 – 11.30am
Siberian poetry in London (In Russian)
Tickets: £4
Thu 1 November 2007 – 7.00pm
The Life and Art of Tivadar Csontvary Kosztka
Professor George Noszlopy on The Life and Art of Tivadár Csontváry Kosztka. (In English)
Tickets: £5
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As you may know, this year’s London Film Festival starts today. Here are some films showing that are either Hungarian, or have some link to Hungary:
Ópium, egy elmebeteg nő naplója (Opium – Diary of a Madwoman) – by János Szász, based on work by writer and psychiatrist Géza Csáth, won four awards at this year’s [...]
Opening tomorrow at the Kiscelli Museum in Budapest is Csaba Nemes’s REMAKE I-X, a series of ten animated sequences dealing with the riots in Hungary last year. The following is an excerpt from Maja and Reuben Fowkes’s ‘Sooner or Later the Tanks Will Appear’:
The work features ten animated sequences that originated in media coverage, video [...]
The paintings of Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-41) are currently being shown at the Tate Modern (28 February – 22 April 2007; admission free). From the Tate Modern’s website:
Amrita Sher-Gil’s vibrant canvasses and her short but dynamic life have established her as one of India’s most celebrated modern artists. Born in Budapest in 1913, [...]