Hrag Vartanian (Armenian The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora. It has its own script, the Armenian alphabet: Հրագ Վարտանիան) was born in Aleppo Aleppo , located in northern Syria, is the largest Syrian city and the most populous in the Levant, with a population of 2,181,061 (2004 official census) and the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian Governorate with a population of more than 4,507,000 (2009 estimate), Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest, raised in Toronto Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region, Canada The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a writer, critic and designer who regularly contributes to AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Quarterly, Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail Started as a broadsheet in 1998, The Brooklyn Rail became a full publication in the fall of 2000, under the direction of publisher Phong Bui and editor Theodore Hamm. Now a monthly journal, it covers arts and politics across New York City and around the world. Each issue features an array of political and literary essays, art criticism, in-depth and other publications. He is currently Director of Communications at AGBU, the world's largest Armenian non-profit organization. He was featured in a Wall Street Journal article on January 23. He blogs at hragvartanian.com.
Writings
- "An Imaginary Armenian Canadian Homeland: Gariné Torossian’s Dialogue with Egoyan" from Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Canadian independent film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in edited by Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell (Waterloo, ON: Wildred Laurier University Press, 2006).
- "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 forthcoming.
- "New York Life Recognizes Genocide Era Insurance Claims," AGBU Magazine (April 2004).[1]
- "Nazi Style Wars," The Brooklyn Rail (October 2003).[2]
- "Curating on the Margins," The Brooklyn Rail (Winter 2003).[3]
- "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).
External links
His Re:Public Street Art column on ArtCal
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