Author: Lizzy Vartanian Collier

Lizzy Vartanian Collier aka Gallery Girl is a writer and curator based in London. Her work has been featured in publications including Dazed, Hyperallergic and Vogue Arabia. She was curator of Perpetual Movement during AWAN Festival 2018 and in 2019 had a residency at the Lab at Darat Al Funun in Amman, Jordan. She has also worked with Armenia Art Fair for its inaugural edition and previously worked as an editor at I.B.Tauris Publishers. In 2019 she co-founded Arsheef, Yemen’s first contemporary art gallery. She has given workshops at Manara Culture in Amman, Jordan and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. As of 2020 she is currently in law school, with the ambition of greater understanding the intersection between art and the law.

postmodernism @ V&A

October 8, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

The V&A is a dab hand at staging exhibitions on style, culture and fashion. In the past it has given the public insight into everything from surrealism to couture. The exploration of postmodernism is a chance to revisit, or in my case discover a period of colour, attitude and rebellion, in a grand departure from […]

la musique bohème

September 22, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Presenting For My Grandmother Ellena, brought to you by Andre Russo under the pseudonym Dragon Slaya. Andre specialises in the electronic music genres of IDM, Glitch Hop and Neurofunk, taking inspiration from the abstract sounds of Tipper, Andreas Tilliander, and Amon Tobin. He creates a freeform sound that never fails to keep his listeners on […]

Zumthor @ Serpentine

September 15, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

This Summers offering at the Serpentine Pavilion was hosted by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. The concept behind Zumthor’s pavilion is hortus conclusus, a garden within a garden. Zumthor himself has said that ‘a garden is the most intimate landscape ensemble I know of. It is close to us. There we cultivate the plants we need. […]

Twombly&Poussin @ Dulwich

September 9, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

This summer saw the somewhat unlikely coupling of Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin sharing an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The exhibition which was built on Twombly’s quote: ‘I would have liked to be Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time’, showcases 21st century expressionism alongside classicism from the 17th century. Both […]

Monki @ Selfridges

September 8, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

The Swedes are no stranger to killer fashion. From ACNE to Cheap Monday, their designs have been draped all over the bodies of fashion conscious 20 somethings in and around the city, and their latest scandinavian arrival, Monki, certainly has what it takes to head in the same direction. Monki, touched down in the London […]