Hrag Vartanian

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Hrag Vartanian (Armenian: Հրակ Վարդանեան) is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the arts blog Hyperallergic. He is a writer,[1] critic[2] and curator[3]

Vartanian was born in Aleppo, Syria,[4] raised in Toronto, Canada, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Hyperallergic was founded by Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian in October 2009 as a "forum for serious, playful and radical thinking".[5]

Vartanian has contributed to numerous online and print publications including the Art:21 blog,[6] Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail,[7] Huffington Post,[8] AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Magazine,[9] and NYFA Current.[10] He has guest contributed to Al Jazeera,[11] NPR,[12] ABC,[13] and WNYC.[14][15][16]

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.[17]

Writings

  • "Do Bush’s Paintings Tell Us Anything About the Former President?" (February 2013) [18]
  • "An Experiment in Street Art Criticism" (March 2010) [19]
  • “Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations“ in Brooklyn Rail (September 2008)[20]
  • “The Very Public Life of Street Art” in Brooklyn Rail (May 2008)[21]
  • "Peter Sourian" from "Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian-American Writers" edited by David Kherdian (Berkeley, CA: Heyday books, 2007) [22]
  • "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).[23]
  • 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 [24]
  • "New York Life Recognizes Genocide Era Insurance Claims," AGBU Magazine (April 2004).[25]
  • "Nazi Style Wars," The Brooklyn Rail (October 2003).[26]
  • "Curating on the Margins," The Brooklyn Rail (Winter 2003).[27]
  • "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

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  3. ↑ http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2010/nov/12/thesocialgraph-exhibit/
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ “About Hyperallergic“, Hyperallergic.com 24 April 2011.
  6. ↑ http://blog.art21.org/author/hrag-vartanian/
  7. ↑ http://hragvartanian.com/brooklynrail/
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ http://araratmagazine.org/author/hrag/
  10. ↑ http://hragvartanian.com/nyfa-current/
  11. ↑ http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/6808525611/my-interview-on-al-jazeera-english-today-about-the
  12. ↑ http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp131101al_qaeda_in_iraq_and
  13. ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/buying-art-on-amazon/4925156
  14. ↑ http://www.wnyc.org/story/173735-edward-burtynskys/
  15. ↑ http://www.wnyc.org/story/192521-21-woodward/
  16. ↑ http://www.wnyc.org/story/101201-thesocialgraph-exhibit/
  17. ↑ "Hide/Seek Press", www.hideseek.org. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  18. ↑ http://hyperallergic.com/64837/do-bushs-paintings-tell-us-anything-about-the-former-president/
  19. ↑ http://hyperallergic.com/3789/street-art-criticism/
  20. ↑ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/09/artseen/is-contemporary-architecture-a-pr-panacea-for-autocrats
  21. ↑ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/05/artseen/the-very-public-life-of-street-art
  22. ↑ 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
  23. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=o7qfCxX_whgC&lpg=PA334&dq=hrag%20vartanian&pg=PA331#v=onepage&q&f=false
  24. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=r3vbswx_1TEC&lpg=PA339&dq=hrag%20vartanian&pg=PA339#v=onepage&q=hrag%20vartanian&f=false
  25. ↑ http://www.agbu.org/publications/article.asp?A_ID=144
  26. ↑ http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/oct03/stylewars.html
  27. ↑ http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/winter03/curatingonthemargin.html

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