Andrew Kevorkian
A Review of Mark T. Mustian’s The Gendarme
When Kim Novak, a “method”-trained actress asked Alfred Hitchcock what her motivation was to go up the tower in the film “Vertigo,” Hitchcock answered, “Just go up, dearie, it’s only a movie.” That anecdote comes [...]
continue reading »A Loyal Bolshevik Tells His Story In “How Did I Survive?”
Although written in the late 1980s and early 1990s and not translated and published until recently, Artavazd M. Minasyan’s short autobiography makes for interesting reading because the author’s life span (1913-1993) encompasses the life of [...]
continue reading »US Ambassador to Armenia’s Report Is That of a Friend
When she was not commenting on the political situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan and Armenia and Turkey, but was limiting her report to the diplomatic relations between Armenia and the United States, America’s ambassador to [...]
continue reading »The 1922 Burning of Smyrna Told Through Its Citizens
When Marjorie Housepian decided to write a novel based in Smyrna during the period of the “Burning,” she knew that she had to do quite a bit of research for what she called “background” information [...]
continue reading »But, They Are Not In Ani
It was the title — The Thousand and One Churches — that drew me to the book. “A book about Ani,” I thought to myself. “And, by two distinguished archeologists — Sir William A. Ramsey and Gertrude L. Bell.” Wondering why I had not heard of it before, I quickly acquired a copy.
continue reading »Reflecting on Arshile Gorky’s Retrospective at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art
A much-lauded retrospective exhibition of the works of Arshile Gorky was held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 21, 2009 to January 10, 2010. In a word, it was well worth the effort of East Coast Armenians to visit it, to see and understand why Gorky is now recognized as the father of Abstract Expressionism.
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