Hrag Vartanian

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Nick Savvas’s “Atomic: full of love, full of wonder” (2005)

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Via Shoot! the Blog…I came across this amazing installation in Australia by Nike Savvas…WOW!

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Tags: art · photography

The Very Public Life of Street Art

May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

My article was originally printed in the Brooklyn Rail (May 2008)

Judith Supine Dirt Mansion English Kills April 12 – June 8, 2008
Pink & Aiko The Brick Ladies of NYC Ad Hoc March 21 – April 20, 2008
Super Combo Chashama ABC Gallery April 4 – April 25, 2008
Everyone dreams about having it both ways and street […]

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Tags: American · Brooklyn · New York · art · art criticism · art news · pop culture

Yummy Art Links

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

C-Monster wanders over to Bushwick’s Lumenhouse to check out “Lather, Rinse, Repeat.”
Art Threat looks at Jerusalem’s odd Museum of the Seam and this line caught my attention:

“While there I saw Orthodox Jews and Muslim women in hijab meditating on the same works and was inspired to linger even longer to absorb the whole of the […]

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Tags: Brooklyn · New York · art · art criticism · art news

Killing Art at the MoMA

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Via the New York Sun:
One of the main artworks in the Museum of Modern Art’s current exhibition, “Design and the Elastic Mind” — a tiny jacket composed of embryonic stem cells taken from mice — has died, the Art Newspaper reported yesterday.
The piece, “Victimless Leather” by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, was designed to remain […]

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Tags: New York · art · art news · human rights

From Prostitute to Post-Impressionist: China’s Modern Art Ambassador

April 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Today we have a guest, Jennifer Cody Epstein, whose new book, The Painter from Shanghai, is a fascinating fictionalized account of the life and times Pan Yuliang, a prostitute who became one of the first truly modern artists in China.

The ultimate underdog, Xiuquing was orphaned at a young age and later sold into prostitution by […]

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