Heghnar Watenpaugh

@heghnarw.bsky.social

Writer, Art Historian, Professor at University of California Davis @ucdavis. Guggenheim Fellow @GuggFellows Art, human rights, cultural heritage, museums, genocide, Middle East, South Caucasus

Please demand that our elected officials not play with the facts of history and clearly state the Armenian Genocide happened, just like Mayors de Blasio, Bloomberg, Giuliani, and Koch did before him. Honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Golden Thread Productions and Hakawati NGO's "Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)" has such a complex structure I'm still trying to understand how it all worked, along with direction that seemed to marshal the storytelling capabilities of every corner of the stage. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

‘Azad’ review: The Armenian genocide and puppets make for shattering theater

The wondrous “Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)” somehow combines uproarious shadow puppetry with devastating drama about family history.

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The fact that some people are debating whether Greenland should be taken over by the US or continued to be "occupied" by Denmark as if the native Greenlandic Inuit population have nothing to say about it, indicates to what extent some of these folks have not opened a single history book.

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This is such happy news: Hrag Vartanian has been awarded the Susan C. Larsen Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rabkin Foundation as a pathfinding writer who has "shaped how we think about art and its social and political contexts.” hyperallergic.com/971979/hyper...

Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian Wins Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award

The Rabkin Foundation recognized Vartanian and feminist curator and critic Lucy Lippard for shaping “how we think about art and its social and political contexts.”

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