Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 17. (Budapest, 1998)

Diary of exhibitions 1997

exhibition finally appeared. Illustrated in colour and partly bilingual (Hungarian and English), this bore the same title as the exhibition itself and was the work of Györgyi Fajcsák and Zsuzsanna Renner. At the György Rath Museum the exhibition "Japanese Buddhist Art. The Art of Buddhism, III" (organized by Eva Cseh) was on display for the whole of 1997, having opened in June the previous year. The permanent exhibition "Chinese Arts" was removed after ten years on display, and the exhibition "A Late 19th-century Korean Studio" was dismantled after five years on show. In their place was arranged "The Collecting of Oriental Art in Hungary' As Reflected in the Collections of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest", in spaces which had been newly renovated. This was the largest exhibition of Oriental art to be held in Hungary' for a decade, and was opened on June 26, 1997 by the art historian Katalin Sinkó. (On the exhibition cf. the paper by Mária Ferenczy published in this volume.) It was the Museum's tribute to the 35th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), held in Budapest from July 7 until July 12. at which five staff members at the Hopp Museum delivered lectures. Judit Pataki