Guest Edit: Budapest’s Cultural Mismanagement

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY***–When I arrived at the Ludwig Museum—Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest on March 1, a colleague told me in a near whisper how the day before the Director of Finance had received a letter instructing that Barnabas Bencsik, the Director of the Ludwig Museum whose five-year contract ended that day, was no longer able to sign for museum expenses. This was how Bencsik and the staff of the Ludwig learned –for the first time– that he would notbe continuing as director. That day, 60 days after the government was required to open the application process, a call for applications was finally announced.

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