Hrag Vartanian

I’ve been a fan of Paul Feeley since I first encountered his work during my Clement Greenberg Collection catalogue research for the Portland Art Museum. A renowned teacher at Bennington College (during its heady days of high Modernism), Feeley has long languished in the shadows of obscurity and he isn’t poised for a revival any […]

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Recently I came across Loren Munk’s fantastic “Greater Williamsburg” painting, which depicts the great American hipster-topia like some fold-out map by National Geographic documenting an important historical moment.
Both of the times I’ve seen this work I got a thrill out of his Brooklyn mash-up, combining Coney Island zaniness with Williamsburg’s pop culture obsession.
A stalker’s delight […]

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My writing desk is on N11th and for the last few weeks I’ve really been enjoying the Dan Witz on my street. It was from his new Ugly New Buildings series and it was perfectly suited to hang beside an industrial seeming door.
Today, as Veken and I walked by we toyed with the idea of […]

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Yesterday the LA Times featured New York’s beloved “guy on a bike” and reveals James’ real name…gasp!
My favorite is how the LA Times gets in their typical MSM dig against blogging:
“… [the Kalm Report] fills a niche in the New York art world that falls somewhere between the highbrow critics for the glossy art magazines […]

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Always unconventional, Armenian American artist Onnig Kardash, staged a protest/performance on April 24, 1969 in front of the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood. The action seemed to underscore the need for love in the face of hate.
April 24 is the traditional day to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide, Kardash’s […]

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