Vitaly Komar Catalogue

Artist Reviews

Eco, Umberto. "Bevente Breshnev Cola," L'Espresso, Italy, March 7, 1976.

"Surprises of New York: Russians, Mille, Gorky, Emily Genauer," International Herald Tribune, February 20, 1976.

Newman, Amy. "The Celebrated Artists of the End of the Second Millennium. A.D," Artnews, April, 1976.

Hughes, Robert. "Through the Ironic Curtain," Time Magazine, v. 120. October 25, 1982, p. 73.

Gambrell, Jamey. "Komar & Melamid – From Behind: The Ironical Curtain," Art Forum, v. 20. April, 1982, pp. 58-63.

Princenthal, Nancy. "Komar & Melamid at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts," Art in America, September, 1989, p. 206.

"Gallery News: Perestroika," Flash Art, vol. XXIII, no. 154. October, 1990, p. 172.

"Gallery News: Stendhal Syndrome," Flash Art, vol. XXIII, no. 153. September, 1990, p. 183.

"Soviet Pair Collaborate on Church Installation," Art Business News, March, 1991, p. 12.

Gambrell, Jamey. "Russian Art to Rutgers," Art in America, vol. 79, no. 6. June, 1991, p. 35.

Faust, Gretchen. Arts, no. 8. April, 1991, p. 99.

"Contemporary Russian Graphics at Irving," The Australian Jewish News Sydney Edition, August 2, 1991.

Sozanski, Edward. "Juried exhibition at Ursinus takes 2 Russians back to aesthetic roots," Inquirer, December 2, 1992.

Slesin, Suzanne. "Oh, So Traditional; Oh, So Subversive," The New York Times, November 5, 1992, pp. C1, C5.

Seward, Keith. "Reviews," Artforum, vol. XXX, no. 10. Summer, 1992, pp. 107-8.

Panicelli, Ida. "Editorial," Artforum, vol. XXX, no. 9. May, 1992, p. 2.

Gray, Alice R. "Komar & Melamid - Ronald Feldman," ARTnews, vol. 91, no. 6. Summer, 1992, p. 126.

Decter, Joshua. "New York in Review," Arts, vol. 66, no. 6. February, 1992, p. 80.

Weschler, Lawrence. "Slide Modifications (with cover art)," The New Yorker, no. 30. September 20, 1993.

Diehl, Carol. "Reviews - Komar and Melamid," ARTnews, vol. 92, No. 10. December, 1993, p. 126.

"The Greening of Russia: Recycling Lenin Statues," The New York Times, September 3, 1993, p. C17.

Robinson, Harlow. "He Who Smuggles Must Learn to Party," The New York Times, December 18, 1994, p. 24 (Book Review).

Raynor, Vivien. "Iconoclasts Alive and Well in the Postmodern, Post-Soviet Era," The New York Times, February 13, 1994, p. 20.

Pataki, Gabor. "Europa, Europa," Art Today, vol. 94, no. 11. November, 1994, pp. 7-12.

Grausman, Jennifer, Andrew Lohr and Lisa Pasquariello. "Telephone Interview with Alex Melamid," Fractured Fairy Tales. Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, January 24, 1996, pp. 85-88.

Groys, Boris. "Top Ten x 12: The Year in Review," Artforum, vol. XXXVI, no. 4. December, 1997, p. 95.

Smith, Roberta. "Silence in Venice," The New York Times, May 14, 1997.

Sante, Luc. "Painting by Numbers," New York Times, January 4, 1997.

Amy, Michael. "Komar & Melamid at Ronald Feldman," Art in America, vol. 86, no. 4. April, 1998, p. 118.

"Public Art: 1998 in Review," Art in America, August, 1999, p. 50.

"Vitaly Komar," The New Yorker, July 11 and 18, 2005, pp. 19-21.

Stillman, Nick. "Vitaly Komar," ArtForum.com, 2005.

Johnson, Ken. "Vitaly Komar Three-Day Weekend," The New York Times, July 1, 2005.

"Three-Day Weekend," Jewish Renaissance Quarterly, Vol 4, Issue 4. July, 2005.

Armetta, Amoreen. "Vitaly Komar," Flash Art, vol. 75. October, 2005.

Mendelev, Haim. "Vitaly Komar: Three-Day Weekend," Russian Forward, #501. July 1-7, 2005.

Coomer, Martin. "Vitaly Komar," Time Out London, vol. 57. August 24-31, 2005.

JL, "Vitaly Komar," The Guardian, The Guide, August 27-September 2, 2005.

Baker, Robert. "Voice Pick, Vitaly Komar," Village Voice, November 16-22, 2005.

Leffingwell, Edward. "Vitaly Komar at Ronald Feldman," Art in America, no. 11. December, 2005.

Stillman, Nick. "Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited," Artforum.com, May 23, 2006.

Johnson, Ken. "Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited," The New York Times, June 9, 2006.

Genocchio, Benjamin. "Skewering Soviet Dogma and Consumerism, Too," The New York Times, April 20, 2008.

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