Hrag Vartanian

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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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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