Hrag Vartanian

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Hrag Vartanian (Armenian: Հրակ Վարդանեան) was born in Aleppo, Syria,[1] raised in Toronto, Canada, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a writer,[2] critic[3] and curator[4] who formerly contributed to AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Magazine,[5] and other publications. He has also contributed to numerous online and print publications, including the Art21 blog,[6] Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail,[7] Huffington Post,[8] and NYFA Current.[9]

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.[10] Vartanian is co-founder of the influential art blog Hyperallergic, which is described as a "forum for serious, playful and radical thinking". Hyperallergic was founded by Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian.[11]

Writings

  • “Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations“ in Brooklyn Rail (September 2008)[12]
  • “The Very Public Life of Street Art” in Brooklyn Rail (May 2008)[13]
  • "Peter Sourian" from "Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian-American Writers" edited by David Kherdian (Berkeley, CA: Heyday books, 2007) [14]
  • "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).[15]
  • 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 [16]
  • "New York Life Recognizes Genocide Era Insurance Claims," AGBU Magazine (April 2004).[17]
  • "Nazi Style Wars," The Brooklyn Rail (October 2003).[18]
  • "Curating on the Margins," The Brooklyn Rail (Winter 2003).[19]
  • "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

  1. ↑ Lean, edited by Huberta von Voss ; translated by Alasdair (2007). Portraits of hope : Armenians in the contemporary world (1st English ed. ed.). New York: Berghahn Books. p. 339. ISBN 978-1-84545-257-5. Retrieved 27 January 2011.  More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  2. ↑ Meehan, Emily (24 January 2007). "Never Mind the Bullets". The Wall Street Journal. 
  3. ↑ Aaron Short (24 January 2011). "Art of the steal! Thief swipes a Ridley Howard drawing off gallery wall". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 27 January 2011. 
  4. ↑ http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2010/nov/12/thesocialgraph-exhibit/
  5. ↑ http://araratmagazine.org/author/hrag/
  6. ↑ http://blog.art21.org/author/hrag-vartanian/
  7. ↑ http://hragvartanian.com/brooklynrail/
  8. ↑ Vartanian, Hrag. "Hrag Vartanian". Huffington Post. 
  9. ↑ http://hragvartanian.com/nyfa-current/
  10. ↑ "Hide/Seek Press", www.hideseek.org. Retrieved 09 March 2010.
  11. ↑ “About Hyperallergic“, Hyperallergic.com 24 April 2011.
  12. ↑ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/09/artseen/is-contemporary-architecture-a-pr-panacea-for-autocrats
  13. ↑ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/05/artseen/the-very-public-life-of-street-art
  14. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=6NBlAAAAMAAJ&q=hrag+vartanian&dq=hrag+vartanian&hl=en&ei=fEzUTc-yEdORgQfwmYku&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ
  15. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=o7qfCxX_whgC&lpg=PA334&dq=hrag%20vartanian&pg=PA331#v=onepage&q&f=false
  16. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=r3vbswx_1TEC&lpg=PA339&dq=hrag%20vartanian&pg=PA339#v=onepage&q=hrag%20vartanian&f=false
  17. ↑ http://www.agbu.org/publications/article.asp?A_ID=144
  18. ↑ http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/oct03/stylewars.html
  19. ↑ http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/winter03/curatingonthemargin.html

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