98 result(s) for wall painting
Xpat Opinion: Sparkling Classical Duo In A Budapest Jewel Box
- 13 Dec 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Last of the 2012 recitals at the Hubay Jenő Zeneterem was a piano and violin program in one of Budapest's most atmospheric venues, a paste jewel box inside the Hotel Victoria, replete with stained glass, oil paintings, and ornate stove heater. Classical buffs clearly agree - the place was packed. The artists were veteran pianist Ilona Prunyi and rising star violinist Ádám Banda, superbly ...
Now On: Antal Lakner: Workstation Exhibition, Ludwig Museum Budapest
- 27 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Antal Lakner is one of the Hungarian artists emerging in the 1990s, who have achieved international recognition. Working at the border between reality and fiction, he creates works of a subversive nature, integrating visual arts into quotidian reality, or querying the traditional approach to art objects and the monotonous rituals of audience behaviour by transforming the institutional environment.
Xpat Report: Authentic Japanese Karaoke Club In Budapest
- 4 Oct 2012 12:55 PM
- entertainment
Ever since the 1990's “empty orchestra,” or the phenomenon better known as karaoke, has spread all over the world from Japan, giving everyone interested the chance to become a self-proclaimed star. In European karaoke bars people sing in a larger hall in front of many people, Doremifa-ya in Budapest however has separate boxes to allow enthusiasts to experience how karaoke is meant to be done.
Invitation: Placcc Festival, Budapest, Until 30 September
- 20 Sep 2012 12:35 PM
- entertainment
An urban game played on smart phones, garbage architecture, a cinematographic city portrait, sound installations, evocative artwork and a public sauna experience make up the programme of this year’s PLACCC Festival. The ten-day event that takes place at unusual locations around Budapest will start on the 21st September. PLACCC – Art that takes you by surprise.
Xpat Opinion: Rolling Into War, Rolling Into Art
- 19 Sep 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
In the late 1930s, Europe teetered on the verge of what would soon become The 1939-1945 War, or to Americans, the Second World War. Out in Hungary, one newspaper editor was frustrated. He wasted far too much time filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages. He was annoyed that the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore the paper.
Invitation: 'Painting With Your Mouth Or Foot', Budapest, 27 August
- 24 Aug 2012 9:03 AM
- community & culture
Artists with physical disabilities and contemporary artists had the opportunity to create and work together within the walls of the Hungarian National Gallery during this summer. The event is sponsored by the Hungarian-owned Poli-Farbe paint factory, which is celebrating his 20 years anniversary.
Finnish Museum Opening, Iszkaszentgyörgy, Hungary
- 23 Aug 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
I have had a plan to open a museum for some years now. A couple of years ago I received from the Finnish Foreign Ministry a very special suite of furniture which has a long and interesting history. This suite of furniture consisting of a sofa, armchairs, chairs and a table, was made in Vienna during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in late 19th century and was bought to the residence of ...
Stolen Csontváry Painting Recovered In Budapest
- 2 May 2012 9:04 AM
- current affairs
Police have found four of five paintings stolen from a Buda home on March 15, including a rare work by Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry. The painting, Szerelmesek Találkozása (“Lovers Meeting”) is the most valuable Hungarian painting ever sold in Hungary, changing hands for Ft 230 million in 2006.
Now On: 'Internal Landscapes', Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 24 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
We rarely meet representations of the countryside amongst the monuments of antique art preserved to us, and there are practically no landscape pictures in the modern sense of the term. There is, however, one sphere in which landscape elements play an essential role: the decorative art of the first two centuries of the Roman imperial period.
Xpat Opinion: Sparkling Classical Duo In A Budapest Jewel Box
- 13 Dec 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Last of the 2012 recitals at the Hubay Jenő Zeneterem was a piano and violin program in one of Budapest's most atmospheric venues, a paste jewel box inside the Hotel Victoria, replete with stained glass, oil paintings, and ornate stove heater. Classical buffs clearly agree - the place was packed. The artists were veteran pianist Ilona Prunyi and rising star violinist Ádám Banda, superbly ...
Now On: Antal Lakner: Workstation Exhibition, Ludwig Museum Budapest
- 27 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Antal Lakner is one of the Hungarian artists emerging in the 1990s, who have achieved international recognition. Working at the border between reality and fiction, he creates works of a subversive nature, integrating visual arts into quotidian reality, or querying the traditional approach to art objects and the monotonous rituals of audience behaviour by transforming the institutional environment.
Xpat Report: Authentic Japanese Karaoke Club In Budapest
- 4 Oct 2012 12:55 PM
- entertainment
Ever since the 1990's “empty orchestra,” or the phenomenon better known as karaoke, has spread all over the world from Japan, giving everyone interested the chance to become a self-proclaimed star. In European karaoke bars people sing in a larger hall in front of many people, Doremifa-ya in Budapest however has separate boxes to allow enthusiasts to experience how karaoke is meant to be done.
Invitation: Placcc Festival, Budapest, Until 30 September
- 20 Sep 2012 12:35 PM
- entertainment
An urban game played on smart phones, garbage architecture, a cinematographic city portrait, sound installations, evocative artwork and a public sauna experience make up the programme of this year’s PLACCC Festival. The ten-day event that takes place at unusual locations around Budapest will start on the 21st September. PLACCC – Art that takes you by surprise.
Xpat Opinion: Rolling Into War, Rolling Into Art
- 19 Sep 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
In the late 1930s, Europe teetered on the verge of what would soon become The 1939-1945 War, or to Americans, the Second World War. Out in Hungary, one newspaper editor was frustrated. He wasted far too much time filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages. He was annoyed that the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore the paper.
Invitation: 'Painting With Your Mouth Or Foot', Budapest, 27 August
- 24 Aug 2012 9:03 AM
- community & culture
Artists with physical disabilities and contemporary artists had the opportunity to create and work together within the walls of the Hungarian National Gallery during this summer. The event is sponsored by the Hungarian-owned Poli-Farbe paint factory, which is celebrating his 20 years anniversary.
Finnish Museum Opening, Iszkaszentgyörgy, Hungary
- 23 Aug 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
I have had a plan to open a museum for some years now. A couple of years ago I received from the Finnish Foreign Ministry a very special suite of furniture which has a long and interesting history. This suite of furniture consisting of a sofa, armchairs, chairs and a table, was made in Vienna during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in late 19th century and was bought to the residence of ...
Stolen Csontváry Painting Recovered In Budapest
- 2 May 2012 9:04 AM
- current affairs
Police have found four of five paintings stolen from a Buda home on March 15, including a rare work by Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry. The painting, Szerelmesek Találkozása (“Lovers Meeting”) is the most valuable Hungarian painting ever sold in Hungary, changing hands for Ft 230 million in 2006.
Now On: 'Internal Landscapes', Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 24 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
We rarely meet representations of the countryside amongst the monuments of antique art preserved to us, and there are practically no landscape pictures in the modern sense of the term. There is, however, one sphere in which landscape elements play an essential role: the decorative art of the first two centuries of the Roman imperial period.