Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - MÓNIKA KUMIN: The New Exhibitions of the Vasarely Museum
acquired by the collection. Gnathia jugs decorated in a variety of added colours on a black background were named after a site in Central Apulia (today's Egnazia), but their place of origin and their main centre of production had always been Tarentum. This wine jug was made in the second half of the fourth century BC and its neck is decorated with the mask of "the hetaira adorning her head with a colourful band" hung on a floral pattern. The motif of the comedy mask represented as if hanging on the wall of the vase —an element emphasizing the Dionysiac atmosphere —was associated with jugs used at symposia. The jug on display was accompanied by terracotta comedy masks made in workshops in Southern Italy, Asia Minor and Egypt, which presented a selection of the favourite mask types (the slave, the old madam, the seduced maiden) of the Athenian New Comedy also popular in Tarentum. For each exhibition of the Highlighted Works of Art series, a guide in Hungarian and English is published, which introduces the objects on display and the period when they were made. The website of the Museum and the Collection of Classical Antiquities provides information on the exhibition on display (http://mfab.hu/Classics; http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/web/ guest/gyujtemenyek/antik/idoszaki). The website of the Collection of Classical Antiquities also includes the guides for previous exhibitions (http://www2.szepmuveszeti.hu/antik_gyujtemeny/evszak_mutargya/index.php). Judit Lebegyev NOTE 1 See Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts nos. 102-103 (2005) [2006] 163, fig. 82. THE NEW EXHIBITIONS OF THE VASA RELY MUSEUM This year a new chapter has begun in the history of the Vasarely Museum. After waking from its winter sleep the smooth operation of the institution has, since February 2006, been entrusted to the art historians of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art Collection, Judit Geskó, Ferenc Tóth, and Mónika Kumin.
