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Avedis Hadjian

Avedis Hadjian is a journalist and writer based in Venice. He is the author of Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey. His work as a correspondent has taken him to Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Caucasus.

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Criticism in Finland Over Country’s Selection Process for the Venice Biennale

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian August 28, 2023August 31, 2023

The commissioning body’s decision to bypass an open call for next year’s edition of the Biennale has been met with mixed feelings by the local art community.

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Can European Museums Lure Visitors Once Again?

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian June 25, 2023June 23, 2023

The Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer exhibition made headlines, but across Europe, many institutions seem to be quietly inching back to their pre-pandemic peaks.

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When a Coin is Worth a Thousand Histories

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian May 31, 2023June 1, 2023

Around the World in 80 Coins at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum tells the stories of ancient gods, queens, and everyone in between.

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An Urgent Vision of Architecture at the Venice Biennale

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian May 23, 2023May 24, 2023

Fittingly titled The Laboratory of the Future, the 18th edition of the show instructed participants to reuse materials and minimize their carbon footprint.

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Can We Find Compassion in the Grotesque?

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

Monstrous Faces and Caricatures invites viewers to confront ugliness and the questions it raises about how we relate to it.

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Art Collective Ousted From Viennese Kunsthalle Speaks Out

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian January 23, 2023January 24, 2023

“We wanted Kunsthalle Wien to address multiple Viennas, not just the old established one,” said What, How & for Whom, whose contract at the institution was not renewed.

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US Researchers Confirm 98% of Cultural Armenian Heritage Sites in Nakhichevan Destroyed by Azerbaijan

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian September 16, 2022September 18, 2022

At least 108 Armenian monasteries, churches, and cemeteries in Nakhichevan have been demolished or blown up by the Azerbaijani government, according to the Caucasus Heritage Watch.

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With Ukraine Square, the Venice Biennale Goes to War

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian May 1, 2022May 2, 2022

The open-air exhibition of works by Ukrainian artists at the 59th Biennale includes art created in bomb shelters, in exile, and from a place of strength and hope.

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Ai Weiwei Creates a Homage to Julian Assange

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian March 27, 2022March 25, 2022

“[Assange’s] imprisonment marks the collapse of a free and civilized society,” Ai Weiwei told Hyperallergic.

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Vienna’s Belvedere Museum Highlights Three Early Modernists Who Straddled Europe and Asia

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

For the first time in three centuries the Belvedere Museum is displaying creations by artists who are not Austrian and have no connection to Austrian art.

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What Are Messerschmidt’s Bizarre 18th-century Sculpted Heads Trying To Tell Us?

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

For Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, his Character Heads were his way to forestall the demons that tortured him.

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Communist Heroes Die Standing Tall in a Budapest Park

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian February 7, 2022February 7, 2022

Uprooted and soulless, the stone and metal statues at Memento Park have long outlived the world that gave birth to them.

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