Imre Benkő's subjective documentarism
Attila Nagy passed away
At the age of 66 Attila Nagy, a film and drama historian, theatre director, Shakespeare researcher, university professor, and a regular member of HAA passed away. Attila Nagy was the author of several important Shakespeare books, a well-known figure in international Shakespeare research, and also played an important role in preserving Transylvanian theatrical traditions.
"Elapsing Time" came to Vigadó
The unique and large-scale fine art exhibition of HAA – which first opened on 5 July 2019 with the title Verstrichene Zeit – Elapsing Time in the Museum of Modern Arts in Passau (Museum Moderner Kunst), then travelled around Europe – came home to Vigadó, the centre of HAA. The display is in connection with the Hungarian memorial year of the political and economic change 30 years ago, i.e. the end of the Communist era. The academicians of HAA have evoked this historical and dicisive event in the language of art.
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Poet Árpád Farkas passed away
On 7 February, in the 77th year of his life Árpád Farkas, a Kossuth Award winning poet, writer, translator, a regular member of HAA and the former editor-in-chief of the Háromszék journal, passed away. In the words of András Sütő he was the poet who "dramatically depicted the silent horrors of the destruction of the Hungarian lofe in Transylvania" and whose worldview is perhaps closest to the Transylvanian worldview of Károly Kós. HAA regards his passing as losing one of its own.
Orator of Trianon
The Hungarian orator of Trianon, Count Albert Apponyi gave a memorable speech 101 years ago 16 on January 1920. In 1931 on his 85th birthday Apponyi was greeted with a commemorative meeting at the Parliament, and several photographs were taken of this event, including a recording of Apponyi's thanks to those celebrating him from the pulpit in the Chamber of Deputies. On the basis of such a recording a painting by Zoltán Veress might have been made after Apponyi's death (1933), which was unveiled in 1934 in the presence of political and public dignities and the family. The picture was later transferred from the Parliament to the Hungarian National Museum.