News
Art Auction Hopes to Help Relief Efforts in Artsakh
Sixty artists from around the world are participating in this auction to benefit refugees who have fled the takeover of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijani forces.
Armenia
Art
Google Arts & Culture as an Agent of Ethnic Cleansing
After Azerbaijan declared victory following six weeks of brutal conflict, the state has gained control of the Armenian-governed area of Artsakh, increasing fear of erasure of the millennia-old Armenian monuments in the area.
Art
“We Are the Rifles Our Ancestors Didn’t Have”: Female Collective Protests for Armenians
Members of the She Loves Collective led a striking procession along the Los Angeles River to raise awareness about the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Art
Outfitted With Symbolic Rifles, Female Collective Raises Awareness for a Largely Ignored War
Performers took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to raise awareness about the escalating war in the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
News
Archeologist Raises Alarms Over Azerbaijan’s Shelling of an Ancient City
An archeological site that was founded in the 1st-century BCE is threatened by the outbreak of violence by Azerbaijan against the Armenian region.
Books
A Poignant Travelogue From a Mother to Her Daughter
The most important thing Ursula Schulz-Dornburg carried with her as she wandered the streets of Yerevan, Armenia, in search of new wonders, is not this camera or that, but the thought of her daughter.
Film
An Overlooked Filmmaker’s Monumental Contributions to Diasporic Cinema
Gariné Torossian has much to teach viewers about the experience of dwelling in displacement.
Opinion
This Year's UNESCO Session Was an Insult to World Heritage
Djulfa, a sacred site for Armenian Christians, is disqualified from consideration because the host of this year’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee session, the government of Azerbaijan, has erased its existence and destroyed tens of thousands of Armenian cultural monuments.
Art
How Armenians Helped Develop Photography in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond
Armenian photographers played a prominent role in the early development and spread of photography throughout the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East.
Art
The Street Style of Armenian Women
Since 2008, the Armenia-based documentary photographer Anush Babajanyan has captured, in her words, "the brightest strangers in Armenia."
Art
Remembering Curator Neery Melkonian, Champion of Diasporic Politics and Aesthetics
In September of 2009, Neery Melkonian and I went on a ghost chase.
Art
A Photographer Documents the Shifting Landscapes of Armenia
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the small, landlocked country of Armenia has been in a constant state of sociopolitical flux.