Hrag Vartanian

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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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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Starting some time in 2001 people in my Bushwick loft building spontaneously created a giving shelf. We slowly began leaving things for other people. Most of the time people picked them up. Among the items were books, kitchenware, electronics, DVDs, clothes and occasionally art work.
It was because of that shelf I felt part of a […]

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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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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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