Hrag Vartanian

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From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Picasso in Tehran (photo)

January 15, 2010

Contemporary Iranian Art in New York

January 13, 2010

Just How Angry are Street Art Haters?

January 13, 2010

My Video of Tameka Norris Work Removed From YouTube (NSFW apparently)

January 11, 2010

Greenpoint, 2:24 am

January 9, 2010

My Take on Man Bartlett’s #BestNonBuy Performance

January 8, 2010

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  • Hrag Vartanian is editor of Hyperallergic and a member of the Triangle Arts Association board.

    He's a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and art critic who has written extensively about street art, performance art, the internet and issues of multiculturalism. He maintains a tumblelog notebook, called “A Brooklyn Art Critic’s Notebook.” He tweets a lot.

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    His writings in the Art21 blog, the Brooklyn Rail, NYFA's Current, and the Huffington Post.


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  • Photo Sets

    • + #TheSocialGraph social media art show, Nov 2010 (16+ photos)
    • + On Display exhibition, Aug 2010 (19 photos)
    • + Philip Johnson's Glass House Estate, New Canaan, Connecticut (26 photos)
    • + Prospect New Orleans (P.1) (120 photos)
    • + Bushwick Open Studios 2008 (184 photos) 2007 (51 photos)
    • + Art Under the Bridge Festival 2008 in Dumbo (226 photos)
  • The #OccupyWilliamsburg banners from a few days ago. They're gone now. #OWSOne of @NohJColey's wooden tabletop pieces at our booth.The old cathedral in St PetersburgStreet art in St PetersburgHermitage at nightHermitage at nightOn the West Side Highway. #streetartA Chelsea corner with @elcelso & @cmonstah. #streetartRob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument" (2010) in Union Sq, NYCKeith Haring   Daniel Buren room (1970) at MoMA

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