“[M]embership of the [Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA)] ‘requires a commitment to the nation, a certain ‘national sentiment’.’ Artists who criticise the government abroad are not eligible for membership…”
If this “national sentiment” Diktat reaches the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) it will be my pleasure and a historic honour (indeed an obligation) to step down rather than just gazing passively in appalled disbelief.
Stevan Harnad (Hernád, István Róbert, Université du Québec, Montreál)
MMA countdown – Free Artists welcomes the resigned MMA-members!
TRANSZPARENCIÁT!