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Veken Gueyikian

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Co-founder, publisher @hyperallergic.com

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 22/09/2026
Dana Mashoian Walrath’s work of graphic nonfiction, "The Book of Genocides," points to historical patterns across 10 genocides, from Germany and Turkey to Gaza.
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What “The Book of Genocides” Teaches Us
Dana Mashoian Walrath’s work of graphic nonfiction points to historical patterns across 10 genocides, from Germany and Turkey to Gaza.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 01/07/2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council will provide the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) with $323.8 million, its highest-ever yearly appropriation as part of the city’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget.
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NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture
The overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This “For You” feed has transformed Bluesky for me. Now my default feed! Highly recommend adding it. foryou.club
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For You · Most Liked Custom Feed on Bluesky
For You is the most liked custom feed on Bluesky. It finds people who liked the same posts as you and shows you what else they’ve liked recently.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Voted in Brooklyn for @claireforny.bsky.social! Let's go!
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Claire Valdez @claireforny.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Artists are struggling with the same things as everyone else: housing, healthcare, and time off." Wonderful to sit down with @hyperallergic.com editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara in Ridgewood to talk about my journey from art to politics and the perspective I'll bring to Congress.
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Claire Valdez Wants to Be Your Artist in Congress
The New York State assemblywoman, who is running for a seat in the House of Representatives, spoke with Hyperallergic about her life as a painter, political origin story, and big plans for Washington.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New York City! Wow 🤯
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/04/2026
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people - and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hyperallergic EIC @hakimbishara.bsky.social snagged a very rare interview with the First Lady of NYC Rama Duwaji. In it she says, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins.”
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In the Studio With Rama Duwaji
Surrounded by her drawings and ceramics, we discussed her evolving art practice and new life as NYC first lady.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 28/02/2026
Diya Vij, vice president of curatorial and arts programs at the Brooklyn nonprofit Powerhouse Arts, will be New York City’s next culture commissioner. The veteran art worker is a “visionary and deeply thoughtful leader,” said Mayor Mamdani.
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Curator Diya Vij Named NYC Culture Commissioner
The veteran art worker is a “visionary and deeply thoughtful leader,” said Mayor Mamdani.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 20/02/2026
Join us on March 2 for an intimate conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis, whose distinctive voice challenges the power structures and inequities of the contemporary art world.
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Keeping a Critical Eye on the Art World With Damien Davis
Join us on March 2 for a virtual conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 09/02/2026
Passionate about art (and its intersections)? Hyperallergic is hiring for several roles on our Editorial and Publishing teams. If you want to work in independent media, we’d love to meet you. buff.ly/kPh13gC
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings!
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 06/10/2025
Hundreds of artists submitted designs to Mamdani’s 36-hour “I Registered to Vote for Zohran” sticker contest. They focused on quintessential New York City imagery like public buses, street signs, subways, and pigeons.
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NYC Artist and Educator Wins Zohran Mamdani Sticker Contest
Nishan Patel’s design depicts a bodega storefront with a furry feline in the window, a tender homage to the beloved neighborhood businesses.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 14/08/2025
When architect Moseley Putney took down a wall in a mixed-use development in Louisville, he revealed a 1985 David Wojnarowicz mural. “I popped a hole in the drywall and ripped enough out that I could put a flashlight on it. And there it was,” Putney said. “It was like looking into a freakin’ tomb.”
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40-Year-Old David Wojnarowicz Mural Resurfaces, Only to Be Hidden Again
The stewards of the artist’s legacy hope that a work miraculously discovered in Louisville, Kentucky, now covered up by the building’s developer, can see the light of day once more.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Just donated to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 14/07/2025
When Trump was elected in 2016, Laura Raicovich had been the director of the Queens Museum for under a year. In 2018, she resigned. “It was not how I would have preferred my tenure to end,” she says, “but given today’s urgencies and threats to democracy, I hope the details of the story are useful.”
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This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum
It’s a story about power, leverage, and fear during the first Trump administration, and also about the potential for solidarity and love in the second.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
ABOLISH ICE
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Don’t rank Cuomo.
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I can get very used to whitewater rafting. Here @veken.bsky.social and I are going over Slaughterhouse Falls.
Seven people on a yellow inflatable raft going over a waterfall in the Rocky Mountains
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
2,169 events across 20 countries. Millions of peope are standing up tomorrow to say with one voice: No Kings!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Three months ago today, plain-clothes ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil in his apartment building lobby after they'd followed him home. Free Mahmoud.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 05/05/2025
Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
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Opportunities in May 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Vilcek Foundation, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
NYC Mayor Eric Adams needs to unequivocally recognize the Armenian Genocide
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 28/03/2025
President Trump issued an executive order targeting so-called “race-centered ideology” in the Smithsonian Institution, conflating critical examinations of the nation’s oppression of women, people of color, and other groups with “anti-American” sentiment.
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Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order
Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs.
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
One of the reasons we're in this mess is because Americans really don't understand immigration and how the system works in the US. And in that vacuum of knowledge the right has been able to conjure up so many fears that continue to perpetuate themselves.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I really loved this!
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
For those in NYC: our guide of what to see in museums and art spaces this spring!
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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
If you ever doubted that non-profit arts organizations were vehicles for minority communities to build cultural power, look at how this administration is targeting them. #quuerart #transart #womensart #blackart
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 27/01/2025
It’s possible to enjoy the New York City arts scene without sacrificing a day’s wages — over 130 museums and cultural spaces offer free or pay-what-you-wish entry.
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130 Free Cultural Spaces to Visit in NYC
A new list released by the Department of Cultural Affairs highlights dozens of free or pay-what-you-wish museums and institutions.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
as profound a meditation on attention as anything I've read
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 20/01/2025
A new collaborative Zine that feels like “the sanest response to insane times.” Read the first issue of “The Siren” for a tonic of humor and political art to get you through today.
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The Sanest Response to Insane Times
MAGA is coming for our rights. The Siren is here to fight back.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
💯 agree
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Good news for one the best movies I've seen in a while.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 30/11/2024
Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"We cannot abandon the most vulnerable communities to assuage the most powerful. Even if we did, it would never be enough." This from @roxanegay.bsky.social is so needed right now.
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Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’m off to Baltimore for the first time. What should I see?
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 13/11/2024
Follow the Hyperallergic team of reporters, editors, and staff here, and stay up-to-date on the latest news, views, and reviews. go.bsky.app/7B3xSY9
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 07/11/2024
Radicalism is in the soul of the US, for better or worse — a flailing energy that lashes out periodically to till the soil and plant new seeds. This is the spirit that waters the country’s vibrant and complex art.
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Rooted in Our Imaginations of Resistance
The darkest soil can often grow the richest crops.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
My full interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates youtu.be/aLzKy2N4s2M?...
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Full Ta-Nehisi Coates interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
It remains unreported that the far-right Heritage Foundation thinktank behind Project 2025, is also the most violently anti-Armenian and pro-Turkish/ pro-Azeri/ pro-oil thinktank in the entire DC establishment.
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Veken Gueyikian @veken.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Grateful to be here with you!
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