‘exhibition history’

From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings

… part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts–Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK)—contains the minutes of meetings that were held from the 1960s to the 1980s for the purpose of evaluating exhibition proposals awaiting official authorisation. From 1963 onwards, the Lectorate had a primarily censorial role in the system of authorising exhibitions and the works showcased at those exhibitions. When it came to the most prominent exhibition spaces (Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle …