The Hungarian Archaeological and Art Historical Society (Magyar Régészeti és Művészettörténeti Társulat) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s prestigious Henszlmann Prize to The Salgo Trust for Education (New York) for its service to Hungarian art and art history. Dr. Oliver Botar has been non-resident curator of The Salgo Trust for Education since 1995, and at the award ceremony held December 8th 2023, he was singled out and honoured for his contribution. The Laudatio was presented by Mariann Gergely, Chief Curator of Modern art at the Hungarian National Gallery/Museum of Fine Art, Budapest.

Lars Müller publishers of Zurich has released the second printing of the long-sold-out English edition of Salgo Trust curator Oliver Botar’s book “Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts,” originally published in 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg and the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin. While errors were corrected and a few illustrations were replaced with higher-definition image files, the text was left as is. This this is not a second edition, but rather a second printing. This important event in the history of the Salgo Trust-Bauhaus Archiv publication was meant to address the high cost of the book on the antiquarian booksellers’ market.

Major donations of paintings, works on paper and photographs by Ágost Canzi, Sándor Bortnyik, Béla Kádár, André Kertész, Béla Kondor, Károly Markó Sr., Gyula Marosán, János Máttis Teutsch Jr., Mihály Munkácsy, József Rippl-Rónai, Dénes Rónai, Hugó Scheiber, Pál Szinyei Merse, and Béla Uitz were recently made to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum. In addition, an endowment was established at the Art Institute of Chicago to support the study and exhibition of art from the region of former Austro-Hungarian Empire.