Hrag Vartanian

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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On thursday, Veken and I headed over to Washington, DC for the day and came across a Hurricane Katrina protest/installation-on-wheels/billboard parked in front of the Capitol. I couldn’t resist exploring the provocative looking trailer with large tape lettering on all sides.

I approached the trailer door and asked if it was a performance or something and [...]

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I published this in AGBU News magazine back in April 1999 but I haven’t looked at it for ages. I came across it earlier this year and decided to post it on my blog for April 24.

Even though I was born in Aleppo, I really grew up in Toronto, which was a vastly less coherent [...]

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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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From Artmika’s Unzipped blog we get a look at a feminist art exhibition in a post-Soviet society..which coincidentally is still in the midst of a controversial election that may not yet be resolved…Artmika writes:
As mentioned in my previous post, the exhibition of feminist art “Gender Trouble” opened on 7 April in Armenia’s capital Yerevan to [...]

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