Professor of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and since 2000 director of the Research Institute on Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) and curator of 19th and 20th-century art collections at the Hungarian National Academy (1988–1995) and director of Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle in Budapest (1995–2000). Author of articles and books on art, 20th-century art theory and contemporary times. Member of many organisations, such as Comité International de l’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), Research Institutes for Art History (RIHA) or the European Academy of Science and Art (Salzburg). Awarded the Hungarian Szécheny Prize and the French Order of Arts and Letters.