Hrag Vartanian

Penguin Books, in collaboration with students at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK), created the world’s first Wiki-novel.
Nearly 1,500 people contributed to the one month project of A Million Penguins. Over 11,000 edits were made, 75,000 people visited the site, and more than 280,000 page views were recorded.
Perhaps it is a little lame to cite [...]

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Hiroshi Sugimoto
by Hrag Vartanian
Colors of Shadow
Sonnabend Gallery
October 28–December 9, 2006
http://brooklynrail.org/2006-12/artseen/hiroshi
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s seems at the brink of a brave new world in his latest exhibition, Colors of Shadow, which is also his first foray into color photography—though looking at these virtually monochromic images you’d hardly know it. What he presents in this show shoots straight to [...]

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Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night
by William Powhida, Stephanie Buhmann, Hrag Vartanian, Robert C. Morgan and Ellen Pearlman
The Whitney Museum of American Art
March 2 – May 28, 2006
http://brooklynrail.org/2006-04/art/whitney-biennial-2006-day-for-night

“Movies remain the perfect vehicle for the introduction of certain ritual rites of passage that come to stand for the quintessential experience of border-crossing for everyone who wants [...]

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http://brooklynrail.org/2006-03/artseen/histories-of-violence
Histories of Violence
by Dore Ashton, Thomas Micchelli, Hrag Vartanian and Yasmeen Siddiqui
Two concurrent Chelsea exhibitions tackle the aesthetics of violence within the context of war: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Superficial Engagement at the Gladstone Gallery and the projects of Walid Raad/The Atlas Group at The Kitchen under the title The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs.
What differentiates [...]

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Published in German, Portrait of Hope: The Armenians will be available in English in 2007. The following is an excerpt of my essay “Difficult Truths” on New York-based Armenian American author Nancy Kricorian:
By her own admission, Nancy Kricorian is an intellectual. A recognized poet, she is more popularly known as a novelist with two books [...]

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