Hrag Vartanian

I think it’s important to broaden our idea of writing beyond a simple sequence of words on a page. 

Forthcoming

• Fixed Point Perspective (Pine Plains, NY: Minerva Projects, 2023)
• “The Story of My Body,” in forthcoming anthology on Armenian Diasporan Writing edited by Aram Mrjoian (University of Texas Press, 2023)
• #TheSocialGraph: A Slow History of the World’s First Social Media Art Exhibition (tba)
• ORIGINS artist book, with Sharon Louden (tba)

2021

Select Podcasts & Audio Projects

• “The World of NFTs, Explained by Digital Artist Addie Wagenknecht,” Hyperallergic (March 2, 2021)

Hyperallergic Special Edition

• Artsakh: Cultural Heritage Under Threat (February)

Select Articles & Reviews

• “A Very Rich Take on the Largest Art Fraud in US History,” Hyperallergic (March 19, 2021)
• “Fake It ’Til You Make It: A Documentary Peels Back the Veneer of Online Influencers,” Hyperallergic (February 25, 2021)
• “A Loving Tribute to the Egg Cream, New York’s Classic Drink,” Hyperallergic (February 4, 2021)
• “When UK Punk Rock Fought White Supremacy,” Hyperallergic (January 28, 2021)
• “The Story of the Scorched Melania Trump Sculpture in Slovenia,” Hyperallergic (January 19, 2021)
• “Photographs Capture Chaos at the Capitol,” Hyperallergic (January 7, 2021)

2020

Select Podcasts & Audio Projects

• “Sam Durant Revisits the “Scaffold” Controversy Three Years Later,” Hyperallergic (October 23, 2020)
• “National Gallery of Art Director Discusses the Decision to Delay the Philip Guston Exhibition,” Hyperallergic (October 1, 2020)
• “Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon on Working to Decolonize the Art World,” Hyperallergic (September 25, 2020)
• “The Artistic World of the Taíno People,” Hyperallergic (September 9, 2021)
• “Our Obsession With Less and Its Co-option by Silicon Valley,” Hyperallergic Podcast (May 31, 2020)
• “Art Critic John Yau Talks About Four Decades of Writing in New York,” Hyperallergic Podcast (May 15, 2020)
• Special Coronavirus series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 … ) (March 18, 2020– )
• “Connecting Museums, Modern Art, Colonialism, and Violence,” Hyperallergic Podcast (March 11, 2020)

I was also invited to submit a remembrance of my aunt Zabel Hamalian for BBC World Service [“Remembering those lost to COVID-19,” BBC OS (September 11, 2020)], which gave me a space to mourn my beloved Zabel tantig during a time when communal gatherings and travel was restricted.

Hyperallergic Special Issues

I launched the new Sunday Edition at Hyperallergic in April 2020. It was an odd time during the pandemic but it was planned for months and felt like it gave me a sense of normalcy amidst the chaos all around.

I kicked it off with Viral: From Pandemics to Popularity  (April 19, 2020), which established my desire to made these editions connected to the moment. I was very happy with the launch and reception and it encouraged me and managing editor Seph Rodney to keep building the section.

Viral was followed by Minimalisms: From Daitokuji to Normie Modernism (May), Juneteenth: From Images of Liberation to Remembrances (June), Mistakes: From Oversights to Missteps (August), and the final edition was connected to the US Presidential election through the theme of Propaganda: From Screed to Screen (October)

Select Articles

• “The Unforgettable Anxiety of 2020,” Hyperallergic (December 30, 2020)
• “Claudia Hart Breathes Life into Static Tropes of Modernism,” Hyperallergic (October 21, 2020)
• “Outfitted With Symbolic Rifles, Female Collective Raises Awareness for a Largely Ignored War,” Hyperallergic (October 15, 2020)
• “It’s Time to End the 9/11 Tribute in Light,” Hyperallergic (September 10, 2020)
• “Beyond Jermag Yev Sev: A Roundtable on Armenian-American Identity” by Sophia Armen, Aram Ghoogasian & Hrag Vartanian, Los Angeles Review of Books (Quarterly Journal: No. 27, Mistakes, August 2020)
• “Why Craft Matters,” American Craft Magazine (May 2020)
• “A Couple Made a Mini-Museum for Their Gerbils to Visit During Quarantine,” Hyperallergic (April 6, 2020)
• “Museum of the Bible Reveals Newly Discovered Audio Recording of the Sermon on the Mount,” Hyperallergic (April 1, 2020)

2019

Select Podcasts

• “The Political Life of Memes with An Xiao Mina” (January 10, 2019)
• “Discussing the Sculptures of Richard Serra with Hal Foster” (January 24, 2019)
• “Traveling Through the Uyghur Homeland with Artist Lisa Ross” (March 1, 2019)
• “Discussing Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi” (March 8, 2019)
• “What Should Artists Do With Their Work After They Die?” (April 18, 2019)
• “Michael Rakowitz Discusses Withdrawing from the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and His Leonard Cohen Problem” (May 17, 2019)
• “Discussing the Future of Design and Tech with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator at MoMA” (June 8, 2019)
• “Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari” (June 11, 2019)
• “The Unapologetic Queerness of Artist Nayland Blake” (June 17, 2019)
• Gardiner Museum series on Clay and Ceramics:
  • “Kent Monkman’s Mission to Decenter the Colonial Museum” (June 9, 2019)
  •  “Shary Boyle’s Exploration of the Fantastic and Political Lives of Clay” (July 23, 2019)
  • “The Largely Unknown History of Blackface in Canada” (August 7, 2019)
  • “The History, Context, and Legacy of an Ancient Maya Plate” (September 3, 2019)
• “The Story Behind Our Art Handlers Exposé” (September 12, 2019)
• “After Kanders: Reflecting on the 2019 Whitney Tear Gas Biennial” (October 7, 2019)
• “Women’s Central Role in Lebanon’s Modern Art World” (November 4, 2019)

Select Articles

• “Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on His Toni Morrison Doc and What Bette Davis Taught Him About Photography,” Hyperallergic (February 11, 2019)
• “Forensic Architecture’s Project at Whitney Biennial Reveals Museum Vice Chair’s Company May Be Complicit in War Crimes,” with Jasmine Weber, Hyperallergic (May 13, 2019)
• “After a Protest at the 2019 Whitney Biennial Opening, Activists March to Warren Kanders’s Townhouse,” with Hakim Bishara and Jasmine Weber, Hyperallergic (May 18, 2019)
• “A Renegade Teletubby Cozy Appears on the Streets of Brooklyn” (September 23, 2019)
• “Brooklyn Museum Is Trying to Sell a Francis Bacon Painting the Artist Wanted Destroyed” Hyperallergic (October 17, 2019)
• “Signs and Banners From the 2019 Protests in Downtown Beirut,” Hyperallergic (October 22, 2019)
• “Lebanese Art Community Joins Unprecedented Protests” Hyperallergic (October 25, 2019)

2018

Podcasts

Launch of weekly Art Movements audio magazine on July 19, including interviews with Jennifer 8 Lee about how she successfully gave us the dumpling emoji, curator Monika Fabijanska on rape in contemporary art, Susan Unterberg on her Anonymous Is a Woman award, Antwaun Sargent on Black contemporary art, and Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell. My podcasts last year included an audio essay about the life and legacy of artist David Wojnarowicz, and a never before heard interview with pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin, which we released at the one year anniversary of her death.

Book Chapter

• “Corporate Media Fictions” essay in Brad Downey’s Slapstick Formalism (2018)

Articles

• “Melania Trump Walks into Hot Water at the Border with ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U?’ Jacket,” Hyperallergic (June 21, 2018)
• “The Elusive Index of Relationships Between Everyone,” Hyperallergic (June 15, 2018)
• “The Little President with a Big Mural in a Children’s Detention Camp,” Hyperallergic (June 14, 2018)
• “Rituals of Liberation Intended to Unsettle at the Whitney Museum,” Hyperallergic (June 14, 2018)
• “The Decline of American Empire in One Photograph,” Hyperallergic (May 21, 2018)
• “Protesters Occupy Brooklyn Museum Atrium, Demanding Decolonization Commission,” Hyperallergic (April 30, 2018)
• “New Banksy Mural Speaks Out Against Turkish-Kurdish Artist’s Imprisonment,” Hyperallergic (March 15, 2018)
• “Art World Largely Silent as Artforum and Landesman Continue to Fight Sexual Harassment-related Lawsuit,” Hyperallergic (February 5, 2018)
• “Met Museum President Daniel Weiss Answers Questions About the New Admissions Policy,” Hyperallergic (January 8, 2018)
• “Picturing Ai Weiwei in Istanbul,” Hyperallergic (January 5, 2018)

Short Stories

• “Flowers for Jack T.,” Hrag Vartanian blog (June 23, 2018)
• “I walked past this warehouse …,” @hragv (May 27, 2018)
• “He confronted the realization that he would never be a painter …,” @hragv (February 7, 2018)

2017

Podcasts

This year I got to travel to Egypt to create a podcast about the Egyptian Surrealism (January 5) exhibition, which was a special treat as few outlets covered the show.  I also had the good fortune to score an extensive interview with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker (November 9) and he opened up about art, equity, and some of the revitalization projects the foundation is supporting in Detroit.

Book Chapter

• “Imagining the Future Before Us: Forward to Sharon Louden’s The Artist as Culture Producer,” published on the Walker Blog (March 17, 2017)

Articles

• “Artist Alleges Raghubir Singh Assaulted Her, Stages #MeToo Performance at His Retrospective,” Hyperallergic (December 4, 2017)
• “The Growing Necessity for the Vera List Center for Art and Politics,” Hyperallergic (November 21, 2017)
• “Curator Nato Thompson on Politics and the State of Social Practice Art,” Hyperallergic (October 25, 2017)
• “Artist Omer Fast Compares Protesters to Alt-Right, Chinatown Art Brigade Responds,” Hyperallergic (October 19, 2017)
• “Chinatown Art Brigade Protests Omer Fast’s ‘Racist’ Exhibition at James Cohan Gallery,” Hyperallergic (October 16, 2017)
• “Adrian Paci Shows Us How We Mourn the Death of Dictators,” Hyperallergic (October 12, 2017)
• “Reflecting on a Family Tragedy, an Artist Looks at Aleppo,” Hyperallergic (September 29, 2017)
• “A Garden of Possibilities at the Palestinian Museum,” Hyperallergic (September 6, 2017)
• “What Does It Mean to Make Art in the South Asian Diaspora?,” Hyperallergic (August 4, 2017)
• “The Alchemical World of a Performance Artist Who Plays with Fire,” Hyperallergic (July 21, 2017)
• “Portrait of 18th-Century Muslim American Proves the US Has Always Been Home to Many Faiths,” Hyperallergic (July 3, 2017)
• “The Wonder of Precarious Fabric Sculptures,” Hyperallergic (May 15, 2017)
• “7 Thoughts About Ivanka Trump’s Photo in Kusama’s “Obliteration Room,’” Hyperallergic (May 9, 2017)
• “The Violence of the 2017 Whitney Biennial,” Hyperallergic (March 20, 2017)
• “The Artist Who Put Kellyanne Conway in an Andrew Wyeth Painting,” Hyperallergic (March 3, 2017)
• “Protesters Demand MoMA Drop Trump Advisor from Its Board,” Hyperallergic (February 22, 2017)
• “A Soon-to-Be-Hidden Artwork in NYC Spells Out the Realities of Native American Life,” Hyperallergic (February 10, 2017)
• “A Decorative Cosmology Bridging Heaven and Earth,” Hyperallergic (February 8, 2017)
• “We Need to Start Now: A Personal Case for the Art Strike,” Hyperallergic (January 17, 2017)

2016

Podcasts

• “Marilyn Minter and Xaviera Simmons Talk Art, Sex, and Democracy,” Hyperallergic Podcast (December 22, 2016)
• ““Artists, Like Actors, Can’t Develop in Public”: A Conversation with Mega-collector Don Rubell,” Hyperallergic Podcast (December 8, 2016)
• “A Report from Standing Rock, Where Artists Listen, Learn, Inspire, and Heal,” Hyperallergic Podcast (November 29, 2016), part of a three-part series that included:
  • A Report from Standing Rock, Where Artists Listen, Learn, Inspire, and Heal [20:36]
  • Artists Rebecca Nagle and Graci Horne Help Women Confront Sexual Violence at Standing Rock [33:14]
  • The Roles of Art and Artists at the Pipeline Protests in North Dakota [65:38]
• “Art Does Change Things”: A Conversation with Curator and Art Historian Kellie Jones,” Hyperallergic Podcast (October 18, 2016)
• “Considering Art and Crisis in Brazil, from Tropicália to Today,” Hyperallergic Podcast (October 10, 2016)
• “Why Were So Many Women Excluded from the History of Abstract Expressionism?” Hyperallergic Podcast (July 25, 2016)
• “Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman on Their Arts-Centric Super PAC #Podcast,” Hyperallergic Podcast (June 6, 2016)
• “Hyperallergic Podcast: Tania Bruguera, Mariam Ghani, Queens International,” Hyperallergic Podcast (May 30, 2016)
• “Introducing the Hyperallergic Podcast: The Marrakech Biennial Curates Decolonization,” Hyperallergic Podcast (May 5, 2016)

Book Chapters & Zines

• “A Photograph That Is Between Listening and Looking,” introduction to Unsanctioned: The Art of New York Streets, compiled by Katherine ‘Luna Park’ Lorimer (London: Carpet Bombing Culture, 2016)
• “The End of Democracy in Turkey” zine. co-editer and designer, for Pipeline to Pipeline: Resistance and Solidarity with Turkey event during the #DecolonizeThisPlace residency at Artists Space, New York, NY (November 12, 2016)

Articles

• “LGBTQ Activists Attacked by Trump Supporters While Leaving NYC Art Space,” Hyperallergic (December 19, 2016)
• “Should the Art World Strike on Inauguration Day?,” Hyperallergic (December 15, 2017)
• “#DecolonizeThisPlace Demands Removal of Natural History Museum’s Roosevelt Statue [UPDATED],” Hyperallergic (October 10, 2016)
• “White Supremacy’s Strange Skittles Obsession,” Hyperallergic (September 20, 2016)
• “Two Writers Artspeak Their Way Through #AskaCurator Day,” Hyperallergic (September 15, 2016)
• “‘A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday’ Flag Goes Up in New York City,” Hyperallergic (July 8, 2016)
• “Funny If You Think About It: Mathieu Lefèvre Laughing/C’est drôle quand on y pense : le rire de Mathieu Lefèvre,” part of special section dedicated to artist Mathieu Lefèvre in Espace #113 (Printemps-été/Spring-Summer 2016)
• “Reflecting on the Complicated and Painful History of Anti-LGBTQ Violence in the US,” Hyperallergic (June 15, 2016)
• “Tracing the Contours of Power at the Marrakech Biennale,” Hyperallergic (May 6, 2016)
• “The Metropolitan Museum Is Still Very Eurocentric and Conservative,” Hyperallergic (March 1, 2016)
• “Plastic Bongs, Chinese Mini-Zines, and Endless Labors of Love at the LA Art Book Fair,” Hypearllergic (February 12, 2016)

2015

Book Chapters & Zines

• Concrete to Data zine project for exhibition at Steinberg Museum of Art at Long Island University in Brookville, New York (2015, print version and PDF released 2017)
• “Raqs Media Collective,” essay in Performa 13: Staging Ideas, edited by RoseLee Goldberg (New York: DAP, 2015)
• “Aram Jibilian,” in the Armenity catalogue, ed. Adelina Cüberyan v. Fürstenberg, for the Republic of Armenia pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (Milan: Skira, 2015)

Articles

• “An Artist Talks About the Trouble of Flying While Muslim in the US,” Hyperallergic (December 4, 2015)
• “A Maze in Philadelphia Focuses Attention on the Hidden Cruelty of US Prisons,” (October 30, 2015)
• “Live from #ALLTHEINSTRUMENTS at the Hammer Museum, Day 1 and Day 2” Hyperallergic (September 26 & 27, 2015)
• “Two Artists Confront the Politics and Prejudice of Mourning in Israel,” Hyperallergic (August 31, 2016)
• “Palestinian Artist’s Rainbow Mural on the West Bank Wall Has Unintended Consequences,” Hyperallergic (July 6, 2016)
• “A Silver Room at Bushwick Open Studios,” Hyperallergic (June 7, 2016)
• “Why I Don’t Buy the Premise of Christoph Büchel’s Icelandic Mosque Pavilion,” Hyperallergic (May 22, 2015)
• “What Else Could $180 Million Buy?” Hyperallergic (May 12, 2015)
• “Gulf Labor and Other Arts Groups Occupy Venice’s Guggenheim #GuggOccupied,” Hyperallergic (May 8, 2015)
• “Art Protest Groups Join Forces for Guerrilla Ribbon-cutting at New Whitney Museum,” Hyperallergic (April 15, 2015)
• “Breaking Down the Demographics of the New Whitney Museum’s Inaugural Exhibition,” Hyperallergic (April 14, 2015)
• “Looking for Origins of Arab Modernism in Kuwait,” Hyperallergic (March 19, 2015)
• “Rethinking What an Art Book Fair Can Be,” (January 30, 2015)
• “Liveblogging ‘The Artist as Debtor’ Conference,” Hyperallergic (January 23, 2015)
• “Accounting for Artists’ Debt,” Hyperallergic (January 22, 2015)
• “The #MuseumSelfie Scourge Is Upon Us,” Hyperallergic (January 21, 2015)

2014

• “You Can’t Sit With Us at Art Basel Miami Beach,” Hyperallergic (December 3, 2014)
• “50 Shades of Art Whoredom,” Hyperallergic (November 14, 2014)
• “The Downside of Art Going Viral,” Hyperallergic (November 13, 2014)
• “Get Your Fix of a Sinister Post-Human Future,” Hyperallergic (November 7, 2014)
• “In Jerusalem’s Old City, a Different Kind of Cubism,” Hyperallergic (November 6, 2014)
• “The Revolutionary Postcolonial Imagination of Surrealism,” Hyperallergic (October 17, 2014)
• “Guarding Jeff Koons,” Hyperallergic (October 15, 2014)
• “How Much Will Artists Be Paid Under the New W.A.G.E. Certification Program?” Hyperallergic (October 14, 2014)
• “13 Responses to the Beyoncé & Jay-Z Pic with the Mona Lisa,” Hyperallergic (October 12, 2014)
• “Dread Scott Enacts the Images of Oppression,” Hyperallergic (October 8, 2014)
• “Four Questions About Contemporary Arab Art,” Hyperallergic (September 28, 2014)
• “Advice from Jenny Holzer for the NFL and Ray Rice,” Hyperallergic (September 8, 2014)
• “Break up the major museums to save them,” Al Jazeera America (August 31, 2014)
• “Swoon’s Underwater Fairy Tale,” Hyperallergic (August 22, 2014)
• “The Real Life Politics of Palestinian Art in New York,” Hyperallergic (July 25, 2014)
• “The Values of Louise Lawler,” Hyperallergic (July 21, 2014)
• “A San Francisco School with an Artistic Mission,” Hyperallergic (July 11, 2014)
• “The Scope of Ai Weiwei’s Imagination,” Hyperallergic (July 11, 2014)
• “The Violent History of Kent Monkman,” Hyperallergic (June 14, 2014)
• “Creative Dissidents Commemorate 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre,” Hyperallergic (June 4, 2014)
• “Protesters Stage Intervention at Guggenheim’s Futurist Exhibition,” Hyperallergic (May 25, 2014)
• “The Mysterious Tale of Hawaii’s van Gogh,” Hyperallergic (April 24, 2014)
• “Emojis May Be Going Multiculti, but What About Art?” Hyperallergic (March 28, 2014)
• “My Gold-Surfaced Cappuccino,” Hyperallergic (March 20, 2014)
• My three-part review (1, 2, 3) of the 2014 Whitney Biennial (March 4–6, 2014)
• My coverage of the February 22 G.U.L.F. protest intervention at the Guggenheim Museum (February 23–26, 2014) and following actions.
• “The Bedroom Where Lincoln Slept with Another Man,” Hyperallergic (February 21, 2014)
• “Sochi, Arshile Gorky, and the Winter Olympics,” Hyperallergic (February 7, 2014)
• “Remember When Milli Vanilli Were Artists?” Hyperallergic (January 31, 2014)
• “What NOT to Do with Kids in a Museum,” Hyperallergic (January 26, 2014)
• “Stock Photos of the Generic Art World,” Hyperallergic (January 16, 2014)
• “Iran’s Reinvention Through Modern Art,” Hyperallergic (January 3, 2014)
• “10 Best NYC Art Shows in 2013,” Hyperallergic (January 2, 2014)
• Catalogue essay for Printed History: Ann Agee, Saul Chernick, and Zefrey Throwell at Gowanus Studio Space (January 10–19, 2014)

2013

• “10 Biggest Art Disasters of 2013,” Hyperallergic (December 31, 2014)
• “The Yayoi Kusama Experience at David Zwirner in Emoji,” Hyperallergic (December 13, 2014)
• “Art Basel Miami Beach Foibles: Deitch Says ‘Hi, Kanye’ to Diddy,” Hyperallergic (December 6, 2014)
• “What If Instagram Was Part of Art History?” Hyperallergic (November 22, 2014)
• “Castello di Ama: Contemporary Masters in the Tuscan Countryside,” Hyperallergic (November 12, 2014)
• Banksy New York Residency series, Hyperallergic (October 1–31, 2013)
• Holy Holy Copy Copy Culture Culture” chapter in Double, ed. Serkan Özkaya (Princeton, October 2013), also published online
• “New Yorker Art Critic Justifies Looting of Detroit Museum,” Hyperallergic (July 24, 2013)
• My monthlong cover of the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) (July 8–August 1, 2013)
• “The Quixotic Visions of Bruce High Quality at the Brooklyn Museum,” Hyperallergic (July 3, 2013)
• “Is That Your Cat on the Caro Sculpture?” Hyperallergic (June 26, 2013)
• “The Whitney Museum’s New Logo Goes Nowhere,” Hyperallergic (May 21, 2013)
• “Emoji Art History,” Hyperallergic (February 11, 2013)
• “Do Bush’s Paintings Tell Us Anything About the Former President?” Hyperallergic (February 8, 2013)
• “A Roller Tribute to Two Digital Anarchist Heroes,” Hyperallergic (February 7, 2013)

2012

• “10 Biggest Art Disasters of 2012,” Hyperallergic (December 27, 2012)
• “Street Art Isn’t a Crime Until Somebody Steals It: Banksy in Miami,” Hyperallergic (December 14, 2012)
• “Looking Around Miami Basel: Where Did All the Bodies Go?” Hyperallergic (December 10, 2012)
• “MoMA’s Hilariously Bizarre Silent Screams,” Hyperallergic (November 19, 2012)
• My Hurricane Sandy coverage (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) (October 29–November 6, 2012)
• My Tate Modern Rothko Vandal Case series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (October 7– , 2012)
• “Let’s Play Google Art Critic!” Hyperallergic (July 27, 2012)
• Images for “Oldest Confirmed Cave Art Is a Single Red Dot,” Hyperallergic (June 15, 2012)
• “At Last Night’s Tom Sachs Opening: Kanye, Robert Irwin and Space Travel,” Hyperallergic (May 16, 2012)
• “My Mother, Me and the Armenian Genocide,” Hyperallergic (April 26, 2012)
• “Swedish Minister Caught in “Racist” Food Art Performance [UPDATED: Museum Closed Due to Bomb Threat]” and “Controversial Afro-Swedish Artist Speaks, “It’s a Disturbing Picture But It’s Also a Disturbing Subject,”” Hyperallergic (April 17–18, 2012)
• “Click on My Face, It’s Art,” Hyperallergic (April 6, 2012)

2011

• My writing contribution to Rob Andrews’s “Cleaning Hrag” (2011) performance (October 28, 2011)
• “An Interview with Dot-com Jedi Alexis Ohanian,” Ararat Magazine (April 26, 2011)
• “5 ALive Emerging Curators – Hrag Vartanian,” interviewed by Alan Lupiani, ArtBlogNYC (October 10, 2010)
• “Keith Haring: 20th Anniversary,” Brooklyn Rail (April 2010)
• “An Experiment in Street Art Criticism,” Hyperallergic (March 11, 2010)
• “New Museum Ethics Quagmire Gets Its Own Unofficial Ad Campaign” (Adam Wissing, Kenny Komer & Boris Rasin), Hyperallergic (March 9, 2010)
• “Street Art Politics & Commercialization…How Far Is Too Far?” (Fauxreel sells out), Hyperallergic (February 25, 2010)
• “$ecrets of the New York Art World” project for #class monthlong exhibition and series of events at Winkleman Gallery, NYC, curated/organized by William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton (February 20–March 20, 2010)
• “Art Burn Report” (Celso’s art bonfire during the Miami art fairs), Hyperallergic (December 4, 2009)
• “Last Night at Wynwood Walls: Fairey, Stelios Faitakis, Los Gêmeos, Swoon & Sissy Bounce” (Deitch Projects’ street art party), ArtCat Zine (December 4, 2009)
• “Longtime Exposure: Considering Street Art Photography” Brooklyn Rail (September 2009)
• * SPECIAL REPORT * Federal Art Stimulus Funding for Art21 Blog
  • Part 1: By the Numbers (July 8, 2009)
  • Part 2: Interview with the House Arts Caucus Co-Chairs (July 9, 2009)
• “Serious Omissions, but Biennial Brings Focus” (The Bushwick Biennial), Bushwick BK (July 7, 2013)
• “EnjoyBanking: An Interview With New York’s $treet Artist$,” Huffington Post (May 8, 2009)
• “Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art,” Modern Painters (May 2009)
• “Some Thoughts on Peter Dobill’s ‘Sans Tête’ (2009),” HragVartanian.com (April 8, 2009)
• “On Jerry Saltz’s ‘This is the End…‘,” NYFA Current (April 2009)
• “Peter Dobill, ‘Sans Tête’ Action Performance (2009),” HragVartanian.com (March 21, 2009)
• “A Review of VANDAL SQUAD & An Interview with Author Joseph Rivera” (Joseph Rivera’s Vandal Squad), ArtCat Zine (March 12, 2009)
• Prospect.1 Art Biennial “Art in the Shadow of Katrina: Touring Prospect New Orleans” Brooklyn Rail (February 2009)
• “Gas Masks, Israel & Human Rights: An Interview with Street Artist Mike Marcus” (Mike Marcus), ArtCat Zine (January 13, 2009)
• * SPECIAL REPORT * Prospect.1 in New Orleans for Art21 Blog:
  • interview with Dan Cameron(January 12, 2009)
  • photo essay (January 13, 2009)
  • tour of the Lower Ninth Ward (January 14, 2009)
  • tour of the French Quarter & Marigny (January 15, 2009)
  • tour of the Warehouse Arts District (January 16, 2009)
• “An Art Market Recession Report,” NYFA Current (January 2009)
• “When Lines Blur: The Photo Booth Without Borders” about Carlos Martinez’s “Photo Booth Without Borders” project, for the Laundromat Project (2009)
• Contribution to Camera/Chimera catalogue, which accompanies the Gallery Aferro show curated by Ethan Hamby (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009)
• “Inspired to Dance by Kara Walker: An Interview with Kyle Abraham,” Art21 blog (December 4, 2008)
• “Exhibiting the Street: A Maze at Factory Fresh” (Celso, Stikman, Infinity, LAII, c.damage, Endless Love Crew), ArtCat Zine (November 26, 2008)
• “Aaron Harvey, Proposition 8 and Branding Equality” (Aaron Harvey & Shepard Fairey), ArtCat Zine (November 20, 2008)
• “Presidential Politics & the Street Art of New York” (Various), ArtCat Zine (November 3, 2008)
• “Art in Odd Places 2008 ‘Pedestrian,’” Brooklyn Rail (November 2008)
• “A Rape Victim Empowers Herself as a Street Artist” (Anonymous Artist), ArtCat Zine (September 30, 2008)
• “The Kalm Report: Art Vlogging as Performance & Critique,” Art21 blog (September 29, 2008)
• “Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations,“ Brooklyn Rail (September 2008)
• “Masters of the Ephemeral” (Aakash Nihalani & Poster Boy), ArtCat Zine (August 15, 2008)
• “The Breakaway Republic of Bushwick” at Bushwick Open Studios 2008, Brooklyn Rail (July 2008)
• “The Very Public Life of Street Art,” Brooklyn Rail (May 2008)
• “Flip: Rachel Beach and Nora Herting” at Like the Spice, Brooklyn Rail  (April 2008)
• “Love/War/Sex” at Exit Art, Brooklyn Rail (Feburary 2008)
• “Andrew Ohanesian & Tescia Seufferlein ‘Blind Spot‘” at English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn Rail (October 2007)
• “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner” at Neue Galerie, Brooklyn Rail (September 2007)
• “The Male Gaze” at PowerHouse Arena, Brooklyn Rail (June 2007)
• “50 years of Helvetica” at the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Rail (May 2007)
• “Virtually an Art Market? Artfully Living a Second Life,” Brooklyn Rail (April 2007)
• “Peter Sourian,” from Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian-American Writers, edited by David Kherdian (Berkeley, CA: Heyday books, 2007)
• “Stuart Hawkins ‘Customs‘” at Zach Feuer Gallery, Brooklyn Rail (October 2006)
• “Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night” (a series of review of the 2006 Biennial, my contribution was titled “Projecting onto America” and focused on video projections in the exhibition) Other reviews by Robert C. Morgan, Stephanie Buhmann, William Powhida, and Ellen Pearlman, Brooklyn Rail (April 2006)
• “Histories of Violence” (3 reviews/essays by four authors on Thomas Hirschhorn “Superficial Engagement” – Walid Raad / The Atlas Group “The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive” – Alfredo Jaar “Muxima”) – My review in conjunction with Yasmeen Siddiqui, other reviews by Thomas Micchelli and Dore Ashton, Brooklyn Rail (March 2006)
• “An Imaginary Armenian Canadian Homeland: Gariné Torossian’s Dialogue with Egoyan,” from Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan edited by Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell (Waterloo, ON: Wildred Laurier University Press, 2006)
• “Shirin Neshat,’” Brooklyn Rail (Dec/Jan 2005)
• “Engaging Ephemera,’” (Cal Lane, Ksenija Cerce, Joelle Jensen) Brooklyn Rail (October 2005)
• “Homomuseum: Heroes and Moments” at Exit Art, Brooklyn Rail (September 2005)
• “Andrew Demirjian ‘Induge and Deny,’” Brooklyn Rail (September 2005)
• “Harriet Shor “Cythera,’” Brooklyn Rail (May 2005)
• “John Lurie “Drawings,’” Brooklyn Rail (February 2005)
• “Schwierige Wahrheiten: Die Schriftstellerin Nancy Kricorian (The Will to Resist: A Portrait of Nancy Kricorian),” in Porträt einer Hoffnung Die Armenier edited by Huberta von Voss (Verlag Hans Schiller, 2004)
• “New York Life Recognizes Genocide Era Insurance Claims,” AGBU Magazine (April 2004)
• “Mala Iqbal “Misty,’” Brooklyn Rail (January 2004)
• “Curating on the Margin” (written with Yasmeen Siddiqui), Brooklyn Rail (Dec 2003)
• “Evan Lintermans ‘New Paintings,’” Brooklyn Rail (November 2003)
• “Nazi Style Wars,” Brooklyn Rail (October 2003) — online only, and it has since been accidentally deleted (along with some other online only material) from the website during an upgrade of the Rail website
• “Evan Lintermans ‘Generica,’” Brooklyn Rail (Winter 2002)
• “Who’s Afraid of Atom Egoyan?” Brooklyn Rail (Autumn 2002)
• “Elusive Boundaries” Michal Rovner: The Space Between, Brooklyn Rail (Autumn 2002)
• “At the Galleries” (Dawn Clements & others), Brooklyn Rail (Summer 2002)
• “Arshile Gorky ‘Portraits,’” Brooklyn Rail (Spring 2002)
• Armenians of New York series for AGBU News magazine (April 2002)
  • “Tracking Armenians in New York“
  • Other articles here
• “The Day That Shook the World,” AGBU News magazine (December 2001)
• Armenians of Massachusetts series for AGBU News magazine (March 2001)
  • “The First Armenian American Communities Take Root: The Armenian American Plymouth“
  • Other articles here
• “Artist Biographies,” The Clement Greenberg Collection (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2001)
• Armenians of Canada series for AGBU News magazine (July 2000)
  • “Armenian in Ontario and Quebec: The Long Road to Canada“
  • “Double Exposure: Two Family Portraits, Canada’s Giants of Photography“
  • “The Armenian Stars of the Canadian Cultural Universe“
  • Other articles here
• FutureHype/Kitabet, edited by Carmen Donabedian & Hrag Vartanian (Beirut: Haigazian University, 1998).
• “Chine Drive: An Arts & Crafts Community,” in The Stuff Dreams are Made of: The Art and Design of Frederick and Louise Coates (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1997).