Choghakate Kazarian
Choghakate Kazarian is a curator and art historian currently based in New York City. She was a curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2011–2018.
Guest Critic
Artists for Artists, About some shared empathies
By Choghakate KazarianWhen artists speak of their peers, they reveal something about their own practices and aspirations: the longing for a kindred spirit or for what they are not and maybe wish to be.
In Conversation
MELVIN EDWARDS with Choghakate Kazarian
A major figure in African-American art, Melvin Edwards (b. 1937) started as a sculptor in the early 1960s in Los Angeles before moving to New York in 1967. Known for the welded steel “Lynch Fragments,” an ongoing series that he started in 1963, Edwards’s work addresses his personal or historical experiences.
Lucio Fontana: Sculpture
By Choghakate KazarianFar from the image of the conceptual artist (who, after WWII, called his works Concetto Spaziale), swiftly slashing the canvas while keeping his hands clean, the exhibition of Lucio Fontana’s sculpture at Hauser & Wirth shows how the Italo-Argentinian artist handled space throughout his forty-year career, from the late 1920s to his death in 1968.
![Lucio Fontana, <em>Scultura spaziale [Spatial Sculpture]</em>, 1947. Bronze, 23 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches. Photo: Daniele De Lonti.](https://brooklynrail-web.imgix.net/article_image/image/34978/kazarian-fontana-1.jpg?w=200&q=80&fit=max)
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
By Choghakate KazarianThe exhibition currently on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see a gathering of 25 pictures by Albert Pinkham Ryder and related works by modern and contemporary artists.
