Hrag Vartanian

Last night (Sun. Feb. 17 at 6pm), New York’s Gartal book reading series continued with all the authors of (An)daratsutian Mej [In the (Un)space] at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village. The book is published by the Women’s Resource Center of Yerevan, Armenia.Gartal founder and visionary, Nancy Agabian, hosted the special trilingual reading with [...]

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I caught up with a colleague and friend, Ellen Pearlman, who is now dividing her time between Beijing and Bushwick (yes, the scrappy Brooklyn neighborhood is attracting the next wave of art cognoscenti). She is an wonderful writer, photographer and film maker and editor-at-large for The Brooklyn Rail who has recently finished Nothing and Everything [...]

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Ok, now some shameless self-promotion for a great new podcast.
Those interested in global Armenian cultural issues should check out Hye Eli, a new podcast by Tamar Hayatayan Armen of Vancouver, Canada, which has the deliciously wonderful tag line “a Mirror for Armenians.”
I was kindly asked to contribute an essay for the latest podcast on Garine [...]

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Art Fag City already tipped you off to the AA Bronson
show in Chelsea….some of the highlights of the exhibition known as “AA Bronson’s School For Young Shamans”at John Connelly Presents were:

the naked shaman holding a real fish in a lush tent (pictured above),

Bronson’s photos, which were expectedly delightful, and

the glory hole stalls (a collaboration [...]

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Once as a bored teen watching TV I hit my breaking point after having seen one too many Church of Latter Day Saints commercials and mindlessly called the number on the screen to order a free copy of the Book of Mormon.
A few weeks later the tome arrived and I was flabbergasted at how badly [...]

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