Hrag Vartanian

I am allergic to everything green. I’m also allergic to McCain supporters, the suburbs and bad design. This is my hell. (Photo via C-Monster & taken in central Florida)

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According to Hipster Runoff:
EVERY DAY YOU SHOULD LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR, AND SAY

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I captured an image of Robson’s maquette for the “Great Indoors” last June when I was doing the rounds of the Bushwick Open Studios. Today, one of my Flickr commenters (Robert Kimberly) made me aware that it’s up in Houston and I wanted to post the final product which looks quite impressive
Aurora Robson has [...]

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I knew Jack Kevorkian wrote (back in the 1970s he published in a literary journal that I’m on the board of now) and I also knew he painted (badly). When I was in Boston in August I was able to see some of his creepy works first hand…I don’t know what to say about them [...]

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I posted the edited interview with James on Art21 last week but I wanted to post the extendamix since I think he said some interesting things (particularly about Willoughby Sharp) that I wanted put out into the ether. Here goes…

THE UNEDITED JAMES KALM INTERVIEW
HV: First off, how do you want to be identified? James Kalm? [...]

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