So far, the events of the festival – jointly organized by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture, the Balassi Institute in Budapest and the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York – have had more than 45 thousand visitors in New York and Washington. The media coverage included articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and The Washington Times.
 
Until 7 September, the mysterious story of "The Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior", a bronze statuette from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts is the centrepiece of the exhibition The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo Da Vinci Puzzle at The National Gallery of Art in Washington. The origin of the 24-cm statue, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, is the focus of recent technical examinations.
 
The Hungarian Fashion Show is timed to coincide with one of the most prestigious events of the fashion world, New York Fashion Week, at Grace Plaza. Between 13–16 September the latest haute couture collections by the designer groups Je Suis Belle and Use Unused as well as designer Ahn Tuan will be on show. The models will pose during lunch hour with passers-by in front of backdrops featuring fashion scenes and trompe-l’oeil paintings. Photographers using the rare 8x10 Polaroid cameras – favourites of Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton – will shoot the scenes, paying tribute to American fashion photography. The Polaroid photos will immediately be exhibited at the glass cube entrance of the ICP offices. 

 

Cabaret Magyar, a three-part series of fin-de-siècle cabarets with 21st-century spirit, will be shown for the first time in New York at Galapagos Art Space. New York and Hungarian artists, writers and musicians take on a variety of Hungarian subjects from Harry Houdini and Zsa Zsa Gabor to Cicciolina, Transylvania, the Rubik cube and Ex-Lax.