Arts & Culture

By Jill Leovy LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles Times) — Charles Garabedian, modern artist of mythological themes, who was raised in East L.A., fought Air Force missions in World War II and[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BOCHUM, Germany — Thousands of Armenian descendants of Genocide survivors, especially from the United States, have had the opportunity to travel though eastern[...]

By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Gerald Papasian lives to act, direct and entertain. He has been in movies, television shows and more often, plays and light[...]

GLENDALE — On Sunday, March 13 at 5 p.m., Lark Musical Society, under the auspices of the Armenian Missionary Association of America, will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.[...]

BEIRUT – Director and actor Berj Fazlian passed away in Beirut on February 15. Born in Istanbul, Fazlian was considered one of the important founders of the Lebanese theater. Through[...]

ISTANBUL – Armenian Minister of the Diaspora Hranoush Hakobyan and many writers in Armenia, Turkey and other parts of the world sent author and journalist Robert Haddejian letters of congratulations[...]

GLENDALE — The noteworthy memoir, Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide (Stanford Univ. Press, 2015), by the late Karnig Panian, will be the focus of a program on Thursday,[...]

KITTERY, Maine — Artists at War – offering testimonies of creative minds affected by brutalities of our times – today announced a new multi-media platform dedicated to bringing first-hand interviews with artists[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff NEW YORK — Cubist-Impressionist Simon Samsonian (1912-2003) painted for six decades in Egypt and in the United States. Orphaned as a toddler by the murder[...]

BOSTON — Pianist and New England Conservatory (NEC) faculty member Lilit Karapeian-Shougarian will appear in a solo recital at NEC’s Jordan Hall on Tuesday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m. The[...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Armenian International Women’s Association-San Francisco (AIWA-SF) members mixed and mingled with friends and family of Meghedi Melody Nazarian at a private residence in the Bay Area in December[...]