Covid-19, The Future and Culture

Covid-19, The Future and Culture

Stage art cannot survive alone. Whether it’s a soloist or an orchestra, drama theatre, ballet or opera, a stage and an audience are necessary. These two, the one on the stage and the one looking at it, have lived together for thousands of years. A writer can create in...
Fruition Through Complexity

Fruition Through Complexity

Arshile Gorky ‘I see my life as an artist, as having gone through three main experiences. The first is simplicity, the time of purity. The next is a time of confusion caused from the ordeal of the search for truth. The last is mastering extreme complexity. The last is...
Stories Without Words

Stories Without Words

Ida Kar wrote to her husband, Victor Musgrave “I am becoming a legend”. This self-acknowledgement had originated from the attentive and respectful attention her exhibition had received from the Armenian government in 1959. In London, in March 2011 –...
The Before and After in the Works of Sarkis Hamalbashian

The Before and After in the Works of Sarkis Hamalbashian

Intuition and Art Hamalbashian was born in Gumri. His early paintings are peaceful and quiet. They are monochromatic with no striking contrasts at all. And each work possesses its own beautiful narrative. One example of his idyllic creations depicts a woman carrying a...