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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 Kazarian

When 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.

Portrait of Choghakate Kazarian, pencil on paper by Phong Bui.

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.

Portrait of Melvin Edwards, pencil on paper by Phong Bui.
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