Through layered canvases, intricate stitching and luminous color, Eozen Agopian fuses painting, textile and sculpture into transcendent works. Her art explores memory, identity and space, honoring women’s labor and evoking spiritual resonance across continents.
Nina Katchadourian’s art playfully reorders the world, creating alternate meanings from everyday objects. Her projects, from rearranged book titles to self-portraits in airplane lavatories, challenge our perception of categories, identity and representation, blending humor with deep intellectual curiosity.
Choghakate Kazarian, an Armenian-born, Paris-raised curator, masterfully blends intellectual rigor and artistic elegance. Specializing in modern and contemporary art, her groundbreaking exhibitions, from Chloé’s fashion history to Armenian abstraction, showcase her dedication to preserving and redefining art’s narrative.
Lory Bedikian’s book of poetry “Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body” is a poignant exploration of immigrant trauma, familial bonds, identity and mortality. It announces and denounces our fears and some of our most innermost pain with prescient beauty and rare honesty, writes Christopher Atamian in this review.
An emerging artist raised in Yerevan, Meri Karapetyan challenges ideas of borders and conflict in her work, reimagining them as transitional spaces. Her large-scale barbed wire installation at the Biennale de Lyon transforms barriers into pathways, inviting new perspectives on division and identity.
Aida Zilelian’s "All the Ways We Lied" follows the complex lives of the Manoukian sisters in Queens, New York. Tackling themes of trauma, identity, and resilience, Zilelian presents a raw, authentic portrayal of a middle-class immigrant family grappling with their past and present. A review by Christopher Atamian.
Christopher Atamian reviews two documentaries by two diasporan filmmakers about Armenia’s Velvet Revolution and writes that both deliver a somewhat hagiographic portrayal of Pashinyan and his supporters.
Christopher Atamian reviews “The Structure is Rotten, Comrade,” a new graphic novel by Viken Berberian and Yann Kebbi.
Armenian culture and tradition, once subsumed into Byzantine or medieval studies, now has its own separate but important place in the history of art and civilization along with others such as Venice, Rome, and Greece thanks to a groundbreaking exhibition entitled Armenia! at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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