‘Magaxat’ by Rudik Ovsepyan @ REISIG AND TAYLOR CONTEMPORARY

by Joseph A. Hazani September 23, 2023

Mr. Rudik Ovespyan introduces a new concept of red and an extension of a self-reliant media form with his archival opening Magaxat at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary. The modest scale and subject of his paintings permits the subject to absorb the stark contrasts of a sentimental pigment. This is one which is precious to Armenian history; one reserved for most sacred of artifact treatments, that....

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‘Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’ @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

by Joseph A. Hazani September 21, 2023

In what demonstrates to be a spectacular fiasco in the education system in the United States of America, four teenage girls delight in finding worship in a drug warlord in Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Sheer. Not in the Prince of Peace as their ancestors were informed by... That the government may be increased, and of peace there be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to....

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‘Ghost Land’ by Andriy Bondarenko @ City Garage

by Joseph A. Hazani September 21, 2023

In a rapid-response portrayal of the experience of Russian overwrought into the Ukranian Nationhood, the disruption of perfectly innocent life is witnessed in a contemporary setting which reverberates with the tasteful judgment on the sincere reality of war bringing the soul of man below and not above the terrestrial plane of tooth and claw.   It is in this necessary invocation of....

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My Written Works

On the Struggling Artist: An Essay

A philosophical....

On the Christian Business Ethic: An Essay

Analysis of the role that Christian morality has played in the development of commerce and....

On the Necessity of Color in the Fine Arts: An essay

A philosophical exploration of color and its use in Renaissance, abstract and modern fine....

Towards an Understanding of Jesus Christ: An Essay

Nietzsche had incredible disdain for Christianity being "Judaized Rome", of the slave morality of Judaism creeping up and....