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On The Front Line
Through his photographs Hrair Sarkissian portrays a quiet, depopulated and somewhat eerie landscape of Karabakh.
Hrair Sarkissian
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Photographs Revisit the Places Terminally Ill Patients Chose to See Before They Died
"Once visited by these terminal patients, these places aren’t just places anymore, they turn into monuments," artist Hrair Sarkissian said of his Last Scene project.
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Beijing Biennial Censors Art in Armenian Pavilion
Following the attempts of three Azerbaijani officials to remove photographs from the Armenian Pavilion at the 6th Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB) last month, the special exhibit, Dreamscapes, now stands edited from its original presentation by its curator and the biennale's organizers, who
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An Artist Considers the Trauma of His Two Homelands
LONDON — “Nagorno” is a Russian word for “mountain,” while “Karabakh” is a word of Turkic and Persian origin meaning “black garden.” When joined by a hyphen, the two words denote the boiling point of the Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed enclave — one of post-Soviet Europe’s “frozen conflicts”
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Not for Sale: Outside the Convention Center in Miami
MIAMI BEACH — “There’s a lot of product going on here,” I heard a woman say into her cell phone at the mega-art fair Art Basel Miami Beach 2014. Indeed, $3 billion worth of art is being offered for sale this year, according to the event’s organizers.