Andrassy hotel | October 2008
October 2008
Renaissance Year 2008 (2008.01.22. - 2009.01.22.) 
A series of events to mark the 550th anniversary of the coronation of King Matthias will begin on the 22nd of January 2008 and finish exactly one year later. The events will include cultural, gastronomic and scientific themes amongst many others. The aim of Renaissance Year 2008 is bring people closer to values from the Renaissance period that are on the verge of being forgotten. The organisers do not disguise their intention to draw parallels between the artistic, cultural, social and economic rebirth of the renaissance period and modern times. After all, our world is going through changes just as important as those experienced in the time of King Matthias and there is a need for the values that which made the Renaissance a success.
Budapest Autumn Festival 2008 (10.10.2008. - 19.10.2008.)
Cultural institutes and venues throughout Budapest
The Budapest Autumn Festival, with its contemporary arts profile, was founded in 1992 by the Budapest City Authority as the successor to the Budapest Arts Weeks. The festival presents audiences in Budapest with the most significant progressive artists and arts from all genres from today and over the last decade. The events aim to provide exposure and recognition for new Hungarian arts.
One of the missions of the event is to strengthen the concept of Budapest as a ‘Festival City’ by inviting internationally acclaimed productions and raising international awareness of both their own and their partner’s productions. The aim is to improve Budapest’s European cultural standing and embed the image of Budapest as a significant European cultural centre.
For the event calendar please click here.
James Blunt concert in Budapest (25.10.2008. 20:00)
Papp László Budapest Sport Arena
He was born with the name James Hillier Blount in Tidworth, England into an upper middle-class family in 1974. When he was three, his mother taught him how to play the flute, at the age of five he started playing the violin and when he reached the age of seven, he got his first piano teacher. Since his father served at the British Air Force, the family had to move house every two years, so by the age of seven James attended a boarding school, seeing his parents only in the school holidays. He bought his first guitar at the age of fourteen, and he started to write songs. He attended Bristol University, where he wrote his thesis on a Sociology subject. The debut album of James Blunt was released in October 2004, and although the first two singles were relatively successful, the real breakthrough was the third single, the song “You’re Beautiful”. It got released as a maxi as well, and it led the English chart lists for 10 weeks. It became a No. 1 in 18 other countries, amongst them the USA. The album sold 11 million copies and won every possible award. Blunt has given more than 300 concerts covering all continents.
The incredible speed of becoming a superstar and the experiences of this journey give the basis of the lyrics of his second album, “All The Lost Souls”, which was released in autumn 2007. “Going on a concert tour is the best fun anybody can have. The best invention anybody has ever thought of.”
Please book your ticket on the following website: www.ticketpro.hu
Klimt and the beginning of Viennese secession - exhibition (06.11.2008. - 01.02.2009.)
Museum of Fine Arts 
During the time of the ‘Holy Spring’ (Heilige Frühling), members of the two groups of the Secession - the realists and the symbolists -grouping around Gustav Klimt (Hoffmann, Moll, Kolo, Moser and Otto Wagner) took a united stand against the ruling art norms and ideas of the period.
The exhibition arriving from the Viennese Albertina at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts wishes to introduce the art of these few years. This period not only marks the birth of modern arts and the roots of Viennese Secession but it is also the time when European artists established connections with between themselves, mutually influencing each other’s art.
In this early phase following the establishment the drawings and reproduced graphics were given an influential role. In the drawings and graphics of the exhibition it is splendidly and clearly illustrated how the school worked with decorative, smeared surfaces creating a flat effect. In addition, the Museum of Fine Arts supplements the graphic material with significant paintings, creating an a new context for the Budapest audience to be introduced to the works of Austrian artists who are much admired in Hungary.
Please visit the website of the museum !
Neo-renaissance architecture in Budapest - Exhibition (15.09.2008. - 31.12.2008.)
Budapest City Archives (3-5. Teve u., Budapest, H-1139)
Budapest City Archives introduces the representative trend of style of the late 19th century with an exhibition of the largest architectural heritage of the Country, the neo-renaissance plans of Miklós Ybl. These include the collection of plans of the Fővámház (Main Customs House), Opera House, and the buildings of the palace-quarter, behind the Hungarian National Museum: the Festetics-palace and the Károlyi Alajos palace.
Apart from the plans, the period photographs of the buildings (for example the pictures of György Klösz) are also on display, together with maps and works by other architects and planners, such as Alajos Hauszmann and Imre Steindl that make the exhibition material more descriptive. The exhibition is accompanied by other events and an architectural history conference. Exhibition tour guides are available at request.
For further information please click here .
RENAISSANCE IN THE EGYPT OF THE PHARAOHS (08.08-09.11.2008) Museum of Fine Arts 
Respect for the historic past and its myths and the preservation and conscious, but selected, use of venerable inventions from the past were characteristic of Egyptian culture in the age of the pharaohs. Thus this kind of ‘renaissance’ attitude is deeply rooted in the 3000 year old history of the Egyptian state. The exhibition puts the last golden age of Egyptian pharaohs into the spotlight while giving an exciting insight into a culture that continuously kept traditions for 3000 years.
The pieces of the exhibition arrive from the British Museum and the Louvre and from collections in Berlin, Vienna, Florence, Rome, Trieste, Palermo, Munich and Zagreb.
You can find further information here .
FERDINAND HODLER: A SYMBOLIST VISION (09.09.2008. - 14.12.2008.)
Museum of Fine Arts 
The representative and monographic exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts provide an opportunity for Hungarian viewers to become acquainted with the greats characters of European art. Following Van Gogh, in 2008 the life’s work of Ferdinand Hodler will be presented. The last time a similar exhibition of Hodlers’s works was held was in Switzerland in 1983. Such a complete display of works by a foreign artist has, until now, never been held in Hungary.
Details: www.szepmuveszeti.hu
Opera
Fill your night with the magic of Opera or enjoy a unique ballett performance in one of the most beautiful Opera House of Europe. You can check the exact dates of performances on the following link or contact our concierge department on +36 1 4622185: Opera Program
Concerts in Budapest
Let yourself enchanted by music during your stay. To see concert calendar please click... or contact our concierge department on +36 1 4622185
Palace of Arts
The renewed culture center of Budapest has the basic conception of bringing together different branches of the arts under one roof, the building will have permanent residents: the Ludwig Museum, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus and Music Library and the National Dance Theatre. For Palace of Arts program please click... or contact our concierge department on +36 1 4622185
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