Hrag Vartanian

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Hrag Vartanian (Armenian: Հրակ Վարդանեան) (born 1973 or 1974)[1] is an Armenian-American arts writer,[1] art critic,[2] and art curator.[3] He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the arts online magazine Hyperallergic.

Life and work[edit]

Vartanian was born in Aleppo, Syria,[4] raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. His blog-magazine Hyperallergic was founded by Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian in October 2009 [5] as a "forum for serious, playful and radical thinking".[6] Vartanian has contributed to numerous online and print publications including the Art:21 blog,[7] Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail,[8] Huffington Post,[9] AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Magazine,[10] and NYFA Current.[11] He has guest contributed to Al Jazeera,[12] NPR,[13] ABC,[14] and WNYC.[15][16][17] He was formerly Director of Communications at AGBU, the world's largest Armenian non-profit organization. Vartanian was a staunch supporter of the controversial Hide/Seek exhibit which was censored by the Smithsonian.[18]

Curation[edit]

Vartanian has curated numerous exhibitions since the late 1990s. His most recent curatorial project was "Fixed Point Perspective: Ottoman Studio Photography and its Contemporary Legacy" at Minerva Projects in Denver, Colorado.[19] The work in the show was a mix of contemporary and historical, and featured artists Gariné Torossian and Hrair Sarkissian, among others.[20]

Writings[edit]

  • "Do Bush's Paintings Tell Us Anything About the Former President?" (February 2013)[21]
  • "An Experiment in Street Art Criticism" (March 2010)[22]
  • "Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations" in Brooklyn Rail (September 2008)[23]
  • "The Very Public Life of Street Art" in Brooklyn Rail (May 2008)[24]
  • "Peter Sourian" from "Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian-American Writers" edited by David Kherdian (Berkeley, CA: Heyday books, 2007)[25]
  • "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).[26]
  • Bushwick Open Studios featuring artists: Andrew Ohanesian, Tescia Seufferlein, Andrew Cornell Robinson, Richard Martinez.
  • "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). English edition[27]
  • "New York Life Recognizes Genocide Era Insurance Claims," AGBU Magazine (April 2004).[28]
  • "Nazi Style Wars," The Brooklyn Rail (October 2003).[29]
  • "Curating on the Margins," The Brooklyn Rail (Winter 2003).[30]
  • "Artist Biographies," The Clement Greenberg Collection (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2001).
  • 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).

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Meehan, Emily (24 January 2007). "Never Mind the Bullets". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ Aaron Short (24 January 2011). "Art of the steal! Thief swipes a Ridley Howard drawing off gallery wall". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  3. ^ "New York Public Radio - Live Radio Streaming - WNYC 93.9FM". WNYC. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  4. ^ Lean, edited by Huberta von Voss ; translated by Alasdair (2007). Portraits of hope : Armenians in the contemporary world (1st English ed.). New York: Berghahn Books. p. 339. ISBN 978-1-84545-257-5. Retrieved 27 January 2011. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Hyperallergic, at Age 9, Rivals the Arts Journalism of Legacy Media: The online outline was ranked highly in a survey of 300 arts journalists by Mary Louise Schumacher, 24 May 2018
  6. ^ "About Hyperallergic""About Hyperallergic"], Hyperallergic.com 24 April 2011.
  7. ^ "Hrag Vartanian | ART21 Magazine". blog.art21.org. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Brooklyn Rail". Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  9. ^ Vartanian, Hrag. "Hrag Vartanian". Huffington Post.
  10. ^ "Hrag Vartanian". ararat magazine. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  11. ^ "My "Art Market Recession Report" on NYFA's Current". Hrag Vartanian. 29 January 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  12. ^ "Hyperallergic — My interview on Al Jazeera English today about the..." Hyperallergic. June 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  13. ^ "Al Qaeda in Iraq and Maliki in Washington — To the Point — KCRW". www.kcrw.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  14. ^ "Buying art on Amazon". Radio National. 4 September 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  15. ^ "Manhattan Galleries Focus in on Edward Burtynsky". WNYC. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  16. ^ "Illustrated Verses from the 1950s on View at Woodward Gallery". WNYC. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  17. ^ "Social Media Inspires Art Of #TheSocialGraph". WNYC. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  18. ^ "Hide/Seek Press" Archived 24 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine, www.hideseek.org. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  19. ^ "HRAG VARTANIAN – Minerva Projects". Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  20. ^ "The Denver art scene's newest hotspots may be right up your alley — literally". The Know. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  21. ^ "Do Bush's Paintings Tell Us Anything About the Former President?". Hyperallergic. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  22. ^ "An Experiment in Street Art Criticism". Hyperallergic. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  23. ^ "Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations". www.brooklynrail.org. 12 September 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  24. ^ "The Very Public Life of Street Art". www.brooklynrail.org. 6 May 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  25. ^ Kherdian, David; Agabian, Nancy (1 October 2007). Forgotten bread: first-generation Armenian American writers. Heyday Books. ISBN 9781597140690.
  26. ^ Burwell, Jennifer; Tschofen, Monique (1 January 2007). Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN 9780889204874.
  27. ^ Voss, Huberta v (15 June 2007). Portraits of Hope: Armenians in the Contemporary World. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781845452575.
  28. ^ "Armenian General Benevolent Union - Publications". Archived from the original on 10 May 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2006.
  29. ^ "The Brooklyn Rail - Art". Archived from the original on 4 October 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2006.
  30. ^ "The Brooklyn Rail - Art". Archived from the original on 6 September 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2006.

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