This year the V4 Festival and Theater Meetings (VéNégy Festival) will take place in Nagymaros between June 22 and 25. The organizers offer more than a hundred events: theater performances, music performances, film screenings, exhibitions and dance performances. You can also apply for a special acting workshop!

"The Curse of the Empire and the Russian Lie. Russia and Ukraine in Context" ("Prokletí impéria a ruská lež. Rusko a Ukrajina v kontextu a Kontextech"). This is the title of a unique book published this year, to which such eminent authors have contributed as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala, the famous Polish historian Prof. Andrzej Nowak, Czech dissident and Member of the European Parliament Alexandr Vondra or one of the most outstanding Ukrainian intellectuals prof.

At the National Gallery in Prague, one of the largest museums in Central Europe, an extraordinary exhibition entitled "Josef Mánes: Person - Artist - Legend" was opened on Friday.

Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, an iconic figure of Hungarian jazz, died on Sunday morning, at the age of 79,  Source: YouTube (JAP)

After almost a year of restoration and digitization, the Latin liturgical codex, which also contains Hungarian language records, kept in Czestochowa, Poland, was returned to the Pauline Order

The two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor John Malkovich will take to the stage of the Erkel Theater in Budapest on October 2nd, with a musical stand-up version of The Music Critic. Photo by ZSOLT CZEGLEDI / PAP/EPA (JAP)

Hungarian Zsuzsanna Sipos won an Oscar in the production design category for her work on Dune, in partnership with Patrice Vermette. Zsuzsanna Sipos and Patrice Vermette. Photo by JOHN ANGELILLO / PAP/Newscom  

The documentary film about The Life and Heritage of János Esterházy was presented in Budapest on Monday evening in the presence of President János Áder. 

Ákos Engelmayer, a Hungarian journalist living in Poland, historian, lecturer, diplomat, received the Order of Merit for Polish Culture, awarded by Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Piotr Glinski on Saturday.   

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest will soon present its “strongest ever line-up” featuring exhibitions by Bosch, Matisse and El Greco in 2022

The great German master of the baton, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who succeeded Arthur Nikisch as the musical director of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, considered his predecessor as one of the greatest conductors in history and his personal role model. The brilliant Nikisch had a profound impact on leading 20th-century conductors, including Arturo Toscanini and Adrian Boult.