Hrag Vartanian

2020

• “Armenian monuments are at risk in Azerbaijan. L.A. artists make their own to keep memory alive” by Carolina Miranda, Los Angeles Times (December 16, 2020)
• “A rallying cry for the future at Visions 2020” by Gina Fairley, Artshub (December 11, 2020)
• “Meet our keynote speaker: Hyperallergic editor Hrag Vartanian” by Gina Fairley, Artshub (November 30, 2020)
• “Directors of Tate and the National Gallery of Art defend controversial decision to delay Philip Guston show” by Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper (October 4, 2020)
• “How to lose weight during quarantine” by Vivian Manning-Schaffel, Today.com (September 24, 2020)
• RADIO: “Remembering Those Lost to Covid,” (article) BBC News (September 11, 2020)
• “Armenian Art Through the Gaze of Western Institutions,” by Isabelle Kapoian, Armenian Mirror-Spectator (August 27, 2020)
• PODCAST: “Hrag Vartanian in conversation with Darrah Bowden(American Craft Council program)” with the MA Craft Studies program at Warren Wilson College (North Carolina) (August 2020)
• «Interview with Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian» (Interview in Armenian) Hairenik newspaper (June 3, 2020)
• “Why ‘The Scream’ has gone viral again” by Allison Morehead, The Conservation (May 21, 2020)
• “‘Girl With a Purell Earring’: How artists are tweaking famous paintings for our coronavirus era” by Michael Cavna, Washington Post (April 11, 2020)
• “Quarantined Couple Builds Art Museum to Entertain Pet Gerbils” by Katherine J. Wu, SmithsonianMag.com (April 8, 2020) 

2019

• CABLE NEWS: “Step inside the works of van Gogh with immersive exhibit in Montreal” CBC News (December 7, 2019)
• CABLE NEWS: “Paris’s New Public Art Work by Jeff Koons” BBC World News (October 4, 2019)
• “21 Podcasts for Visual Artists” by Gina Fairley, ArtsHub (September 30, 2019)
• REVIEW: “Origins by Sharon Louden and Hrag Vartanian at Signs and Symbols” by Mark Block, Whitehot Magazine (September 29, 2019)
• REVIEW: “Opening Night Impressions of Origins at Signs and Symbols” by Katie Hector Artfuse (September 25, 2019)
• “Origins at Signs and Symbols” by Kid On the Town (September 25, 2019)
• PODCAST: “Art and the 1% with Hrag Vartanian” episode (no. 76) of East Is a Podcast with Sina Rahmani (September 2019)
• “Opening Night of the 2020 Art Season” by Jamie Martinez, Artfuse (September 6, 2019)
• “School of Art holds ‘interventions,’ decorating library books at Smith” by Eleanor Bishop, Chautauqua Daily (August 23, 2019)
• “Hrag Vartanian to Screen New Wave Documentaries at Chautauqua Cinema” by Eleanor Bishop, Chautauqua Daily (July 23, 2019)
• “Critic-in-Residence Hrag Vartanian to Talk Arts Writing at VACI Lecture” by Eleanor Bishop, Chautauqua Daily (July 8, 2019)
• “Egyptian Artists Claim Government Interference in the Country’s Controversial Venice Pavilion” by Paddy Johnson, New York Observer (June 4, 2019)
• “Millennial Realness: 2019 Whitney Biennial” by Colored Criticism YouTube channel (May 17, 2019)
• PODCAST: “SO4 Episode 09: Hrag Vartanian” of the Two Old Bitches podcast with Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler (April 19, 2019)
• “Art on Instagram: Does CJ Hendry’s Model for Success Have the Art Market on Edge?” by Paddy Johnson, New York Observer (April 13, 2019)
• “Meow Wolf Bites Back After Art Critic Labels It ‘Late Stage Capitalism,’” by Kyle Harris at Denver’s alt-weekly Westword (March 16, 2019)
• PODCAST: Ask the Experts 2.0 episode of Public Radio Tulsa’s Museum Confidential with the Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK (March 1, 2019)
• RADIO: All Of It with guest-host Charlie Herman, WNYC in New York City, episode: “Toy Fair, Martha Plimpton, Tovah Feldshuh, Protesting the Whitney Museum” (February 18, 2019)

 2018 and before

• RADIO: All Of It with guest-host Charlie Herman, WNYC in New York City, episode: “Protest at the Whitney” (November 24, 2018)
• RADIO: “Morning Show” on WBAI 99.5FM in New York (November 24, 2017)
• RADIO: “Remembering the man who popularized art book fairs” on KCRW 89.9FM in LA (November 22, 2017)
• “The Denver art scene’s newest hotspots may be right up your alley — literally” by Ray Mark Rinadli, The Denver Post (November 15, 2017)
• PODCAST: “Ask The Experts” episode of Public Radio Tulsa’s Museum Confidential podcast with the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (November 9, 2017)
• “How Might the Guggenheim Museum Have Dodged the Pit-Bull Onslaught?” by Lee Rosenbaum on CultureGrrl blog (October 2, 2017)
• “The Guggenheim Removes Controversial Animal Artworks from Exhibit Following Outcry Activism” by Alison Nastasi in Flavorwire (September 27, 2017)
• “Tourism Making Modest Return to New Jersey’s Largest City 50 Years After the Riots” by Beth J. Harpaz, Associated Press on Skift (July 4, 2017)
• “‘Let it burn’: U.S. art critics respond to the Walker’s takedown of ‘Scaffold’” by Alicia Eler in Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 1, 2017)
• “Toowoomba has richer culture than Melbourne” by Meghan Harris in The Chronicle, Toowoomba, Australia (May 16, 2017)
• “Are You An Artist? Lauren Purje Helps Us Find Out In This Interview” by Rana in Comicsverse (January 31, 2017)
• “A Smithsonian Gift Shop Sells Anti-Trump and Pro-Hillary Paper Dolls Read” by Menachem Wecker in The National Review (January 23, 2017)
• “What Can Artists Accomplish by Saying No to Trump?” by Emily Eakin in The New Yorker (January 20, 2017)
• “New Yorker Künstler zittern um ihre Gelder – wegen Trump” by Sacha Verna in SRF.ch (January 18, 2017)
• “Artists Criticize Proposed Strike for Inauguration Day: The divisive event has art world players debating how to effectively protest Trump” by Alyssa Buffenstein in Artnet News (January 9, 2017)
• PODCAST: “Jolt Radio Show: Interview with Sharon Louden and Hrag Vartanian,” Fresh Art International (December 14, 2016)
• “Roundup: The art of protest, Dakota Access edition; a Trump tower, with pigs” by Carolina Miranda in The Los Angeles Times (December 5, 2016)
• “The art world responds to Trump’s presidential victory,” Apollo Magazine (November 9, 2016)
• RADIO: “Kulturpolitiken ses som demokraternas fråga” by Åsa Secher, Sveriges Radio (November 8, 2016)
• “For Canadians, Thanksgiving Is a ‘Quieter’ Affair in October,” by Peter Wells, New York Times (October 4, 2016)
• RADIO: “Why Peter Doig must go to court to prove this painting isn’t his,” CBC’s Q radio program (Thursday, August 11, 2016)
• “Should Jersey City have painted over the controversial Monopoly board mural?” by Terrence T. McDonald, The Jersey Journal (July 27, 2016)
• “Arte urbano, mujeres y ciudades, perspectivas en tensión,” by Carlos Hernández Pezzi, Bez.es (July 2016)
• “My God, we’re Americans now,” by Jen Graves, The Stranger (June 16, 2016)
• “Early American Landscape Painting The Seed Of American Exceptionalism,” report on my talk with artist Valerie Hegarty by Lizanne Merrill, Artlyst (June 10, 2016)
• “Bushwick Artists Navigate the Perils of Success,” by Nekoro Gomes, City Limits (May 6, 2016)
• “Guggenheim Trustees Break Off Negotiations with Gulf Labor Protesters,” Artforum (April 18, 2016)
• “The Arch of My Eye’s Orbit,” review by Helena Anrather, Canvas magazine (Spring 2016)
• “Five questions for Hrag Vartanian,” by Karen Sandstrom, CIA.edu (February 23, 2016)
• RADIO: CBC’s Q program, Arguing against Ai Weiwei’s recreation of infamous Aylan Kurdi photo in Turkey, “In defense of Ai Weiwei’s drowned Syrian boy photo” (February 8, 2016)
• RADIO: “Visiting Artist Lecture by Hrag Vartanian at UC Davis,” KDVS, Davis, CA (January 2016)
• “Review: A national aesthetic: 58th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Arts features ‘outrageous range’ of works,” by Anthony Bannon, The Chautauquan Daily (July 11, 2015)
• RADIO: “Now Open: Frieze Week,” interviewed by Brian Lehrer for The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC (07:10) (May 13, 2015)
• “The infinite spanking of Jerry Saltz,” by Nicole Levy, Capital New York (March 16, 2015)
• RADIO: “Art Investing with Louden and Vartanian,” interviewed by Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn for The Bloomberg Advantage on Bloomberg Radio (15:15) (March 5, 2015)
• “20 Reasons the Art World Hates Stefan Simchowitz,” by Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine (January 5, 2015)
• “3 exceptional examples of protest performance art: Hyperallergic,” by Brady Dale, Technical.ly (November 25, 2014)
• VIDEO: Narrator in HBO’s Banksy Does New York (premiered on HBO November 17, 2014)
• “ArtPrize jurors show their respect for Grand Rapids with Shortlist,” by Joseph Becherer, MLive (October 1, 2014)
• “Shortlist reveals insight into juror selection process,” by Holly Bechiri, The Rapidian (September 30, 2014)
• “Should children run wild in art galleries and museums?” by Michelle Warwicker, BBC (August 27, 2014)
• “NYC Art Gallery Internships: Unpaid Labor On NYFA Job Board, But Are Postings FLSA Compliant?” by Christopher Zara, International Business Times (August 8, 2014)
• “Marble Marbles,” on Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish (May 10, 2014)
• “A report on the panel discussion “Who Can Write About Performance Art?” presented by PERFORMA Institute and NYU Steinhardt at Judson Church, 04/24/2014,” by Ester Neff, Nociception Theatricianneural: net of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (May 7, 2014)
• “Iranian Modern,” on Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish (January 10, 2014)
• “Lost in the Gallery-Industrial Complex” by Holland Cotter, New York Times (January 1, 2014)
• PODCAST: The Conversation // Art Podcast, interview with Hrag Vartanian, editor of Hyperallergic (October 18, 2014)
• RADIO: “Banksy Finishes Painting the Town in New York” segment on KCRW-LA’s To the Point with Warren Olney (November 1, 2013)
• “Banksy concluye su mes de trabajo en Nueva York” by EFE Spanish newswire (El Informador daily newspaper in Guadalajara, Mexico, November 1, 2013)
• “KAWS Is Thriving in the Art World, But Will He Make the History Books?” by Kyle Chayka (Complex Magazine, November 1, 2013)
• “Instagrams of the Art World: Arty Halloween Costumes With ‘Hirst,’ ‘Koons,’ and ‘Trash,‘” by Rozalia Jovanovic (In the Air blog, Artinfo, November 1, 2013) PHOTO
• “Banksy’s New York residency ends with blow-up letters, message of public art’s power” by Thomas Tracy , David Handschuh, and Stephen Rex Brown (New York Daily News, October 31, 2013) PHOTO
• “Statement In Support of LGBT Human Rights” by two-dozen prominent Armenians in the Diaspora (in Aravot newspaper and HETQ investigative journalist magazine, both in Yerevan, Armenia, October 30, 2013)
• “Instagrams of the Art World: FIAC, the Whitney Bash, Banksy, Basquiat Eating, and More” by Rozalia Jovanovic (In the Art blog, Artinfo, October 25, 2013) PHOTO
• “Funny Dada: Notes From Hrag Vartanian’s Talk on Humor in Art Criticism” by Benjamin Sutton (In the Air blog, Artinfo, October 17, 2013)
• “Banksy Reveals 9/11 Tribute Piece In New York City” (Huffington Post, October 15, 2013)
• “New Banksy work spotted on Queens wall” by Irving DeJohn (New York Daily News, October 14, 2013)
• “Banksy paints NYC in ‘Better Out than In’ street show Live” by (New York Daily News, October 11, 2013) PHOTO
• “More People Watching Banksy’s Syrian War Video Than Videos of Actual Syrian War Footage,” by Jen Graves, The Strangers’ SLOG blog (October 8, 2013)
• “FSU Art MFA Students Meet Founders & Editors of Hyperallergic,” Florida State University’s Dept. of Art blog (October 3, 2013)
• “Amy Goodman Herman Wallace is free after 40 years in solitary confinement” by Amy Goodman (Rabble.ca, October 3, 2013) PHOTO
• RADIO: “Buying Art on Amazon,” interviewed by Michael Cathcart for a ABC radio arts segment (12:21) (September 4, 2013)
• “Breaking: Schjeldahl Retracts” by Judith H. Dobrzynsk (Real Clear Arts, July 26, 2013)
• “First annual AGLA benefit held in New York” (Armenian Reporter newspaper in Yerevan, Armenia, July 21, 2013)
• “To Venice and Back with Hyperallergic,” Artsy Editorial (July 2013)
• “NYC Through the Lens of Hyperallergic,” Artsy Editorial (May 2013)
• VIDEO: “Art+Talk inverview with writer, editor, curator and art critic Hrag Vartanian” by Samantha Villenave, Google+/YouTube (November 3, 2012)
• “A Dream of Turning Times Square Into a Huge Blinking Art Gallery Comes Closer to Fruition,” by Jed Lipinski, Capital New York (October 19, 2012)
• “Gunning for Big Bird, Ctd.,” on Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish (October 5, 2012)
• “Fuse Visual Arts Commentary: Boston Mural Stirs Controversy,” by Kyle Clauss, The Arts Fuse (August 18, 2012)
• PODCAST: “Episode 363: Hrag Vartanian & Hyperallergic,” Bad at Sports (recorded December 2011, published online August 13, 2012)
• RADIO: “Illustrated Verses from the 1950s on View at Woodward Gallery,” interviewed by Abbie Fentress Swanson, WNYC (March 16, 2012)
• “50 Influential Art Figures to Follow on Twitter,” by Complex Magazine Staff, Complex Magazine (February 12, 2012)
• “Bushwick Confronts Itself in Panel on Art Scene’s Future,” by Benjamin Sutton, L Magazine (January 20, 2012)
• “Bushwick Art Scene: Bigfoot in Bushwick,” by Rachel Corbett, Artnet (January 20, 2012)
• “How was Confronting Bushwick,” by Terri Ciccone, Bushwick Daily (January 20, 2012)
• RADIO: “Manhattan Galleries Focus in on Edward Burtynsky,” interviewed by Abbie Fentress Swanson, WNYC (December 2, 2011)
• “The Art of Being a Character” by Tim Murphy, New York Times (August 3, 2011)
• BOOK: Interviewed and included in “The Web and Social Networkign: Art World 2.0,” by Kianga Ellis in Taking AIM!: The Business of Being an Artist Today, edited by Marysol Nieves (Fordham Univ. Press, June 2011)

• CABLE NEWS: “Al Jazeera English Interviews Arts Editor on Ai Weiwei’s Release,” Al Jazeera English video news segment (02:46) (June 24, 2011) (raw video)
• “Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ: An Interview With Co-Curator Hrag Vartanian,” by Paddy Johnson, Art F City (June 16, 2011)
• “The Social Revolution,” by Barbara Pollack,  ArtNews (June 1, 2011)
• “Social Media Inspires Art Of #TheSocialGraph,” by Janaya Williams, WNYC (November 12, 2010)
• “Interview with Hrag and #thesocialgraph,” by Joann Kim Núñez, Updownacross (November 12, 2010)
• “Occupy Museums to protest at art exhibits in New York,” by Maura Judkis, Washington Post (October 10, 2011)
• VIDEO: “On Display Curated by Hrag Vartanian at STOREFRONT GALLERY,” James Kalm TV (August 20, 2010)
• “Dingy duds make great performance art for LIC exhibit,” by Leigh Remizowski, New York Daily News (August 13, 2010)
• “The End of Trust,” by Leon Neyfakh, New York Observer (July 7, 2010)
• “Lady Gaga and Terence Koh Put On a Show Together in Tokyo,” By Leon Neyfakh, New York Observer (April 26, 2010)
• “Collaboration between Hrag Vartanian and Gaia,” by RJ Rushmore, Vandalog (March 11, 2010)
• “Rodin-ternet! Brooklyn Museum’s Digital Docent Peddles Art to Peoria,” by Gillian Reagan, New York Observer (January 7, 2009)

Misc.

One Brooklyn poet used one of my Brooklyn Rail articles as source material for his poetry, he turned my “article about architecture … into a TV thriller through poetry” called “Made-For-TV“:

Made For TV
by Erik Von Ploennies

The grave of a KGB ruler.
His death, odd.
Designed to highest international standards.

An integral role in protocol.
A dictator telling them what not to report.
There were few examples.

A moral quagmire and politics.
It is no coincidence.
Invented propaganda.
The cinematic masterpiece.