Tue Oct 05 2021

Behind the Magic: Rudolf Vatinyan’s On-Set Photographs From “Khatabala”

When cinematographer Rudolf Vatinyan passed away from COVID-related complications in 2020, people eulogized about an exacting professional who had filmed a number of iconic films. No one remembered, however, that Vatinyan had a parallel creative passion.

Tue Jul 20 2021

Notes From a Future Museum: Bagging Up Ideologies

How a black evening handbag found among countless items in Yerevan’s largest flea market revealed a paradigmatic shift from the egalitarian criteria of Soviet ideology, which accorded functional objects with purely practical properties.

Fri May 21 2021

Rediscovering the Body: The Painful Birth of Post-Soviet Performance Art

With Varduhi Kirakosyan

Although performance art has practically disappeared from the contemporary art scene as an autonomous medium, early practitioners had a profound impact in changing perceptions of the body in Armenia’s post-independence culture.