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ETERNALLY INCOMPLETE – THE RENEWED MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

ETERNALLY INCOMPLETE – THE RENEWED MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

After almost three years' work and spending around 15 billion HUF, the Museum of Fine Arts reopened in the autumn. The building underwent its greatest reconstruction of its history, but at first glance all we see are minor face lifts. Which only shows that the designers were on the right track. A REPORT BY ANDRÁS ZSUPPÁN More

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DEVELOPMENT IN THE DARKROOM

Susan Faludi: In the Darkroom

Susan Faludi’s book In the Darkroom is a grand voyage around identity. She writes about personal, family and national identity, about sexual and gender identity, about religious and political affiliations. The subject matter was provided by her own father, the renowned photographer and retoucher and his sex reassignment surgery. How did a historian of photography read Faludi’s book? BY KÁROLY KINCSES. More

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A BIOFASCIST CIRCUS

Body exhibition / Király utca 26.

Király utca is „lively” indeed, but as the Body exhibition finally shows, the price of this life is total dehumanization with the human machine revealing its truths of the living dead. BY MÁRIÓ Z. NEMES. More

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"TODAY IS (NOT) YESTERDAY" (COCO CAPITÁN)

Gucci Garden, Florence

The 9th of January, 2018 was the day Gucci Garden in Florence was opened to the public, bringing about some novelties compared to the earlier narrative, or more accurately creating a new space that moves along the frontier between fiction and palpable reality. BY IRISZ MAÁR. More

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THE FEMALE BODY EXPERIENCE - WITH SERENE RUTHLESSNESS

Frida Kahlo – Masterpieces from the Museo Dolores Olmedo of Mexico City/ Hungarian National Gallery

„She was the first woman in the history of art to treat, with absolute and uncompromising honesty, one might even say impassive cruelty, those general and specific themes which exclusively affect women” BY ANDREA BORDÁCS. More

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MALKOVICH FOREVER

Sandro Miller: Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich – A Homage to Photographic Masters / Műcsarnok

The project is moving, playful, special: the American fashion and portrait photographer, Sandro Miller has recreated several iconic portraits in the history of photography with the ingenious, chameleon-like John Malkovich. Without him the result would have been questionable, even though the idea is great in itself. BY GYÖNGYI VERES More