From Artsvi Bakhchinyan

Artsvi Bakhchinyan

Artsvi Bakhchinyan is a Yerevan-based philologist, writer, historian of art, researcher in Armenian Diaspora, translator, Ph. D. He is author and editor of dozen books. Artsvi conducts interviews and writes articles in Armenian, English and Russian.

YEREVAN/DILIJAN – Yaro (Yaroslav) Zabavskiy is a practicing artist, visual arts teacher, and head of the Arts Department at United World College Dilijan. Originally from Moscow, his curiosity and passion[...]

The number of online platforms dedicated to Armenian cinema has increased by one. A new bilingual (Armenian-English) website has been launched, presenting the life and work of renowned Armenian film[...]

“Again Iran?” — asked those around me upon hearing that I’m traveling to Iran for the fourth time, and for the third time at the initiative of the Cascade Iranian[...]

YEREVAN–TALLINN – Kristiina Davidjants (born in 1974, Baku) is an Estonian film director and producer and cinema journalist. In 2001, she earned a bachelor’s degree in film and video direction[...]

For over three decades, Yerevan-based translator Aram Ohanian has been “spoiling” Russian-speaking readers with his high-quality translations form English-language literature. However, he stands out among his colleagues for his[...]

YEREVAN/BUDAPEST — Lázár Imola is a Hungarian artist specializing in enameling who has been connected to the arts since childhood. She was born in Reghin, Transylvania (Romania) and currently lives[...]

YEREVAN — This past February, the 16th “Armenian Composing Art Festival,” organized by the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, took place in Yerevan. During its second concert, on February 17, a[...]

YEREVAN/OAKLAND — For many years, I have been in touch with American theater director, actress, producer, playwright, and translator Torange Yeghiazarian. Born in 1964 in Tehran, she received a medical[...]

YEREVAN – Arman Peshtmaljyan (born 1992) is an award-winning composer, arranger, keyboardist/pianist, songwriter, and music producer. He specializes in jazz, pop, folk and fusion while continuously exploring innovative approaches in[...]

YEREVAN-THE HAGUE, the Netherlands — Andrius Arutiunian (born 1991, Vilnius, Lithuania), a multifaceted conceptual artist and composer of Armenian and Lithuanian heritage, works with hybrid forms of listening, vernacular knowledge,[...]

YEREVAN/CAPE TOWN — My interlocutor, Mario Migirdic (Megerdich) Atakliyan, resides in South Africa. Born in 1965 in Istanbul, he studied at the Surp Haç Tbrevank Armenian Lycée. Actively involved in[...]