An exhibition called Art Fanatics can be seen in the Art Hall at the Heroes Square in Budapest between April 3rd and May 23rd. It shows the private collection of several Hungarians. Not to much of a thrill to foreigners maybe, but if you still visit the Heroes Square and need to use the toilet in the basement of the Art Hall, then maybe you could check out the exhibition as well, while there.
Art Fanatics
Art Hall Budapest
April 3 – May 23
I just thought I’d throw away some old papers and magazine here the other day, and then I found the November edition of Time Out Budapest. In the paper they published their Budapest Restaurant awards for 2009, and I thought I’d just share their results, for those who haven’t read the magazine. One thing interesting to see is that in 2009 November, before Coster received its Via Michelin star, Time Out Budapest already considered the restaurant to be the best contemporary international restaurant in Budapest.
Best restaurants in Budapest 2009 (according to Time Out Budapest):
Best contemporary international:
Best progressive Hungarian:
Best traditional Hungarian:
Best Italian:
Best Asian:
Best fancy, but cheap lunch:
Best Sunday brunch:
Best wine restaurants:
Best burger:
We wish everyone a good lunch, and why not eat a dinner outside today?
Ryan Air, currently flying to Glasgow, East Midlands, Dublin and Bristol from Budapest, will stop flying from Budapest in the end of October 2010. After negotiations with the people at Budapest Airport, they could not agree on prices, and therefore Ryan Air pulls out. They also said, that if they would have gotten cheaper prices, more destinations would be added from Budapest. This did not convince the people at Budapest Airport!
If you want to travel with Ryan Air from Budapest, do it before October 31. If you would like to travel with Ryan Air from Hungary after that, you will have to travel to Balaton and the airport Sármellék, close to Hevíz and Keszthely.
This might not be the hottest exhibition of the year in the Museum of Fine Arts, but if you are interested feel free to visit while at the Heroes Square. The description below is the official description of the exhibition.
Visual Poetry – Concrete Texts
Museum of Fine Arts
January 13 – May 9
More information on the temporary exhibition:
The various forms of visual poetry – or experimental poetry as it is also known- came into existence along the fringes of traditional forms of literature, the visuals arts and music. Their role in modern art was always that of reconnecting branches of art that had taken different directions according to new points of view as well as the opening up of the possibilities hidden within already existing materials of expression.
The Open Structures Art Society’s (OSAS) new, international exhibition brings together original works, copies and details of works dating from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Several characteristic periods and areas meet within the bounds of the exhibition: Western type, coarse, typographical concrete poetry; visual poetry, which had been influenced by Concept Art and Structuralism; visual poetry’s own characteristic Hungarian form, represented by picture poems by Hungarian writers; and contemporary Japanese visual literature from the representative collection of Austrian artist Josef Linschinger. Several historical film and contemporary phonetic works of poetry compliment the visual materials on display.
The exhibition named Mirror to the World is an interesting exhibition arranged in the Museum of Applied Arts in the center of Budapest. This exhibition shows how our habits of spending, using and throwing away has a destructive effect on our surroundings and the earth. This is an exhibition that has something to say, and it might in fact be worth visiting this one!
Mirror to the World
Museum of Applied Arts
April 15 – May 16
A new exhibition can now be seen in the Holocaust Museum in the ninth district of Budapest. The exhibition is called “Belated Homecoming: Art in Exile.” The exhibition presents the work of significant artists and scientists of the 20th century Hungary who worked outside the country. Many of them had to leave the country due to their origin starting in the 1920s and 1930s.
Some of them became important figures of the Hungarian cultural and public life, however, some notable artists and their works are still unknown, waiting to be discovered. In its « Art in Exile » exhibition series the Holocaust Memorial Center is venturing to introduce these artists to the public thus differentiating the, often schematic, picture of the holocaust and providing a more personal view of the era.
Art in Exile
Holocaust Museum
April 17 – August 15
From time to time we make up a list of most popular Budapest restaurants based on the amount of table reservations we make in Budapest restaurants for our guests. This is of course not an official list showing the actual popularity of a restaurant, but it is more for fun to show what restaurants our visitors like to visit.
In March 2010 the most popular restaurant based on our table reservations was Sir Lancelot. That is not unusual at all, rather normal in fact, as Sir Lancelot often ends up with most table reservations. On the second place in March Gundel was to be found, while several restaurants had to share the third place; Pampas, Matyas Pince and Trofea Grill!
The woman with all kinds of dresses, hairstyles and special music is coming to Budapest, Lady GaGa! This will for sure draw tourists to Budapest in addition to the thousands of Lady GaGa fans around in Hungary, so be sure to order your ticket within shortly if you want to be there. The concert will be around in Budapest Sportarena November 7th, 2010.
Lady Gaga was born March 28, 1986, and her original name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.
Lady GaGa Budapest
Budapest Sportarena
November 7, 20:00
Tickets: WorldTicketShop
For those of you who have read our latest blog additions it is not a secret that I have been stuck in Holland for some days due to the ashes from the volcano at Iceland. Now I have finally returned back home after some 21 hours travelling with OrangeWays from Utrecht to Budapest. It was a nice trip, and from the bus I could see for example the Cologne Cathedral and Schönbrunn in Vienna.
Now it seems as if airtraffic is getting back on track again, which is nice as we have quite some guests coming in with planes in the coming days and many of them combine their airport transfers with guided tours. Welcome to Budapet all of you!
Are you stuck in Budapest? Would you like to get home as soon as possible? We are used to helping out with airport transfers, but in this occasion we can also help transporting you home to your wished for destination in Europe, for example cities such as Prague, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Amsterdam and so on. We offer small and middle size taxies with space for up to 7 people (8 people if there is little luggage). We try to keep the prices down, so if you would be in need of such a transfer back home from Budapest, then please contact us, and we will send you an exact price offer for your destination.
For bigger groups you can contact us as well, but we first of all try to help smaller groups!
