Komar & Melamid: Selected Magazine and Newspaper Articles

1994

Artnews 93, no. 2 (February 1994): 139.

"Art Poll." Art&Antiques (May): 23.

Atkins, Robert. "Scene and Heard." The Village Voice, March 22, 1994, p. 86.

Benavidez, Max. "Angels' Flight." Artissues, no. 32 (March/April 1994): 1719, cover.

Coontz, Robert J. "Last One Out, Get the Lights." The Sciences 34, no. 3 (May/June): 810. "Flusspferd im Herbst." DerSpiegel, no.11 (March 1994): 210.

Hixson, KatherineandAnnWiens. "Editorial." The New Art Examiner 21, no. 8 (April 1994): 7.

Hochfield, Sylvia. "Reviews: Old Symbols/New Icons, Stuart Levy." Artnews 93, no. 4 (April 1994): 171.

Hughes, Robert. Hlcons of Stalinism." Time (January 24, 1994): 65-6.

"Komar and Melamid Poll the Nation." Flash Art 27, no. 176 (May/June, 1994): 53.

"Light Blue Culture." Shambala Sun 2, no. 5 (May): 3235.

Rugoff, Ralph. "Komar & Melamid: The Alternative Museum, New York.U Frieze (London), issue 16 (May 1994): 59, 60.

Sangster, Gary. "In Your Dreams: A Cultural Policy for the Nineties." Northern Ohio Live 14, no. 9 (May 1994): 1921,36.

Steur, Joseph. "There's No Accounting for Taste." Daily News, Wednesday, March 16, 1994.

"Voice Choices: Komar & Melamid." The Village Voice, March 22, 1994, p. 67.

Woodward, Richard. "The Perfect Painting." New York Times Magazine, February 20, 1994, pp. 36-37.

Zorpette Glenn. "Dynamic Duos." ARTnews 93, no. 6 (Summer): 164-69.

1993

Andre, Mila. "Recycle Lenin or Bust." The Daily News, July 18, 1993.

" An Exhibit That Causes Heads to Turn." The New York Times, Wednesday, July 28, 1993, p. B3.

Bacon, George. "Around the galleries." The Art Newspaper, no. 30, July-September 1993, p. 31.

Chazan, Guy. "Scavengers amid fallen idols." The London Times, April 28, 1993.

"Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art -25 Years: A Retrospective." Dialogue (September/October 1993): 28.

Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review." The New York Times, Friday, July 16, 1993, p. C25.

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

Diehl, Carol. "Reviews - Komar and Melamid." ARTnews 92, No. 10 (December 1993): 126.

Erlanger, Steven. "Mocking socialist Realism to Save It." The New York Times, Tuesday, August 3,1993, pp. C13, C14.

_____. "Recasting Leninist Icons." International Herald Tribune, August 78, 1993, p.7.

"Flash Art News." FlashArt 26, no. 172 (October 1993): 62.

Gambrell, Jamey. "Lenin's Ghost to Leave Red Square?" Art in America 81, No. 12 (December 1993): 25.

Glueck, Grace. The New York Observer, November 22, 1993.

_____. "Uncle Joe Invades P.S.1; Painting the Door of No Return." The New York Observer, December 6, 1993.

Henry Kunzel, Ginger. "Collector's Corner Ludwig's Voracious Appetite." ARTnewsletter XIX, No. 7 (November 30, 1993): 6.

Hoberman. J. "Bloc That Metaphor The Impossible Dream of Socialist Realism" The Village Voice 38, no. 10 (March 9, 1993): VLS 22-33.

"Socialist Realism From Stalin to Sots." Artforum 32, no. 2 (October 1993): 72-75, 77, 115, 118.

Janowski, Pat. "Quanta Recent Sitings, Speak No Evil." The Sciences 33, No. 6 (November-December 1993): 45.

Kaplan, Andrew. "Engineers of Post-Soviet Souls." Moscow Guardian, April 30, 1993, p. 29.

Kaplan, Fred. "On Lenin's day, sacrilege: campaign for a neon mausoleum." The Boston Globe, Friday, April 23, 1993, p. 2.

Kaufman, Michael T. "New Socialist Realism: Emigres' Bleak Canvases." The New York Times, Saturday, November 20, 1993, p. 25.

Kimmelman, Michael. "Stalin's Painters: In Service of the Sacred." The New York Times, Friday, December 10, 1993, pp. C1, C31.

Klein, Chris. "Saving History, Not Rewriting It." The Moscow Times, no. 263, July 29, 1993, cover and p. 2.

Knight, Christopher. "Leave Them to Heaven." The Los Anaeles Times, March 7, 1993, pp. 6, 89 Calendar.

Kommersant Daily, No. 16, January 30, 1993.

Larson, Kay. "Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow." New York 26, No. 47 (November 29, 1993): 66, 70.

_____. "Museums." New York 26, no. 36 (September 13, 1993): 56.

Levin, Kim. "Listings Art/Komar & Melamid." The Village Voice, October 19, 1993, p. 73.

_____. "Monumental Propaganda." The Village Voice, 38, no. 33, August 17, 1993, p. 74. "Listings Stalin's Choice." The Village Voice, December 7, 1993, p. 84.

Listsova, Olga. "Garden of New Lenin Art." The Moscow Tribvne, Saturday, August 7, 1993, p. 8.

Lowenstein, Drew. "Renegades and Emigres." Downtown Resident, October 822, 1993, p. 20.

Lufty, Carol. "Emigre Artists: Rocky Landings." ARTnews 92, No. 9 (November 1993): 49-50.

McGee, Celia. "When Museumgoers Talk Back to the Art." The New York Times, April 25, 1993, pgs. Section 2, 37-38.

Moscow Center for Contemporary Art, No. 1, April 1993.

Moynihan, Shawn. "What to do with those old Soviet monuments." Advance [1993].

Napack, Jonathan. "High (Nancy Kissinger) and Low (Mark Kostabi) Turn Out for Alex." The New York Observor, September 27, 1993.

The New Yorker (September 13, 1993): 21.

Newspaper of Moscow Center of Contemporary Art, April 1993.

O'Donnell, Paul. "Russian Glee Room." New York 26, no. 27 (July 12, 1993): 20

Ogoneok Magazine, No.1415, April 1993, p. 3.

Pedersen, Victoria. "Gallery Go'Round." Paper Magazine (October 1993): 27.

Pincus, Robert L. "AII-clay show ironically out of context with its theme." The San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday, March 7, 1993, p. E2.

Raynor, Vivien. "Russians' Freewheeling Spirit Defies the Burden of History." The New York Times, Sunday, October 31, 1993, p. 24.

Remnick, David. "What Becomes a Lenin Most?" The Washington Post, July 25, 1993, pp. G1, G67.

"Revamped Mausoleum & other revolutionary figures." Downtown Express, September 2, 1993, p. 3.

Schjeldahl, Peter. "What Is To Be Undone?" The Village Voice XXXVIII, no. 35, August 31, 1993, p. 90.

Singer, Natasha. "Artists Urge Pink Flamingoes for Lenin's Tomb." Forward, May 7, 1993, p. 11.

Solomon, Andrew. "Komar and Melamid." Artforum XXII, no. 4 (December 1993): 7778.

"Soviet Memories." The Washington Post, Sunday, September 5, 1993, p. C6.

Stein, Jean (ed). Grand Street 11, no. 44 (1993): illustration p. 96.

Szanto, Andras. "Every Exhibition is an Orgasm and Then You Die." NewArt (December) (Budapest): 1923.

Tallmer, Jerry. "lrony is the big legacy of Iron Curtain." The New York Post, Saturday, August 7, 1993.

"The Past Requiem or Renewal?" Moscow Guardian 3, no. 31 (August 20, 1993): 3,12-14, 17.

"'Unity' in Los Angeles." Downtown Communique, Spring/Summer 1993 (a publication published by Maquire Thomas Partners).

Weschler, Lawrence. "Slight Modifications." The New Yorker (July 12, 1993): Cover and pp. 5965.

_____. "Portfolio by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid: Stalin in New Jersey," The New Yorker LXIX, no. 30 (September20, 1993):124-125.

1992

"About Elections." The New York Times, Sunday, August 30, 1992.

Akinsha, Konstantin. "Moscow: Art in Prison Butyrskaya City Prison." ARTnews 91, no. 6 (Summer 1992):148-149.

Brown, Patricia Leigh. "Sears: the real America (according to these Russians)." Austin American Statesman (via New York Times News Service), February 28, 1992, pp. F1, F5.

Busch, Akiko. "By Design." Metropolis 11, no. 7 (March 1992):37-39.

Cantu, John Carlos. "New uses for propaganda." The Ann Arbor News, 1992, p. D6.

Decter, Joshua. "New York in Review." Arts 66, no. 6 (February 1992):80.

"Downtown Jersey City Artists' Studio Tour." The Jersey Journal, Sunday, September 20, 1992.

Gambrell, Jamey. "Russian Artists Go to Jail." Art in America 80, no. 5 (May 1992):159.

Garred, Eileen. "Two Guys in Bayonne." Rutgers Magazine 71, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 26-27.

Gray, Alice R. "Komar & Melamid Ronald Feldman." ARTnews 91, no. 6 (Summer 1992):126.

Groys, Boris. "The Total Art of Stalinism." ArtJournal 51, no. 2 (Summer 1992):4. "In Brief." FlashArtXXV, no. 165 (Summer 1992): 133.

Kellogg, Kate. "Russian artists suggest alternative uses for political monuments. The University Record, November 9, 1992, pp. 5, 11.

Kissinger, Beth. "The Politics of Art." Tempo, October 30-November 5, 1992, p. E67.

Literaturnaya Gazeta, June 17, 1992.

Long Shot 13 (1992): 24, 63, 115.

Milne, Victoria. "America's truly ugly heart." Blue Print, no. 86 (April 1992):40. Moscow News, November 1, 1992.

Muchnic, Suzanne. "Artists Dip Brush Into Melting Pot." Los Angeles Times, December 31, 1992, pp. F1, F11.

"Multiples & Objects & Books." The Print Collector's Newsletter X)(lll, no. 2 (MayJune 1992):63-64.

Nesbitt, Lois E. "Soviet Art: In from the Cold." Rutgers Magazine 71, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 22-26, 28-29.

Panicelli, Ida. "Editorial.a Artforum XXX, no. 9 (May 1992):2.

Russian Daily, January 20, 1992. Russian Daily, March 3, 1992.

Servin, James. "Spectator's Sport: 'Searstyle' The Art World's Latest Joke." Associated Press Special Features (April 3, 1992).

Seward, Keith. "Reviews." Artforum XXX, no. 10 (Summer 1992):107-8.

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

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

Straus, Cees. "Cumulus from America." Parkett 33, 1992: 159-165.

Strausbaugh, John. "All I Want for Christmas A Holiday Wish List." The New York Press Gift Guide, November 25-December 1, 1992, pp. 34, 6, 8.

Tallman, Susan. "Feet of Clay." Arts Magazine 66, no. 8 (April 1992):15, 17.

"The Talk of the Town Revolutionary." New Yorker LXVIII, no. 14 (May 25, 1992):30-31.

Wallach, Amei. "The Power of 'Slow Art'." New York Newsday, June 19, 1992, p. 89.

Watkins, Eileen. "Twin Jersey City exhibits take jabs at political process." The Sunday Star Ledger, September 27, 1992.

Zimmer, William. "Election Dreams and Fears Dramatized." The New York Times, Sunday, September 13, 1992. p. 14 (NJ)

1991 Adams, Brooks. "Komarand Melamid." Art in America 79, no. 6 (June 1991):144-145.

"Art."lnterview XXI, no. 3 (March 1991):58.

Bakshtein, Joseph. "Komar and Melamid: Conceptualism as an Action." Performance (Soviet Union): 5, no. 402, (1991):18-19.

_____. "Reviews: MANI-Museum." NIKE, no. 39 (July/August/September 1991): 50.

Brenner, Laurie. "The New New York." New York Woman 5, no. 7 (April 1991):68-81.

"Catholic Holy Works Commissioned." Jersey Journal, January 12, 1991.

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

Cooke, Susette. "Third International Master Print Fair." CraftsArts 22, (July/September 1991):101-102.

Cullinan, Helen. "Partnering for artsy mimickry." The Plain Dealer, Saturday, February 23, 1991, pp. 1 F, 4F.

DeRossitt, James. "Komar & Melamid Intrigue with Surreal Satire." The Daily Helmsman, September 10, 1991, pp. 7, 9.

Evans, Bob. "Check the Fine Prints." The Sidney Morning Herald, July 2, 1991.

Faust, Gretchen. Arts, no. 8 (April 1991):99.

"Five Degrees of Separation." The Pennsylvania Gazette 90, no. 3 (December 1991):36-9.

Gallery, Valery. "Wall Patrol." Cover5, no. 2 (February 1991):5.

Gambrell, Jamey. "Russian Art to Rutgers." Art in America 79, no. 6 (June):35.

"Goings On About Town." The New Yorker (February 18,1991):10.

Gollerbach, Sergey. 'The Sky of New Jersey." Novoe Russkoe Slovo (Russian Daily, New York) February 19, 1991, p. 12.

Hampton, Howard. "Public Enemies: Ronald Reagan Conquers the Martians.N Artforvm XXIX, no. 8 (April 1991):98-103.

Howard, Edwin. "Russian Artists' Works in Timely Shows at MSU, Eaton." Memphis Business Joumal, September 16-20,1991, p. 27.

"If It's Novel, It Must Be Soviet." The New York Times, January 13,1991, Arts & Leisure, pp.1,89.

Independent Newspaper, Moscow, October 16, 1991.

Kirsh, Andrea. "St. Louis Letter." Contemporanea, no. 24 (January 1991):28-29.

Koeppel, Frederic. "Russian Artists Spoof Leaders, Pin a Tale on Tyranny." The Commercial Appeal, September 6, 1991, pp. E10-11.

Kohen, Helen. 'Team Work showcases the art of collaboration." The Miami Herald, Sunday, September 15, 1991.

"Komar and Melamid." hi fashion (Japan), no. 204 (April 1991):185.

"Komar & Melamid.H The Nation 253, no. 3 (July 15 1991): 103.

"Komar & Melamid." The Print Collector's Newsletter XXI, no. 6 (January-February 1991):230.

Kozloff, Max. 'The DiscreetVoyeur."Art in America 79, no. 7 (July 1991):100-107, 137.

Levin, Kim. "Choices." The Village Voice XXXVI, no. 7, February 12,1991, p. 96.

_____. Sculpture (March/April 1991): 34-36, 38-39.

Lovenheim, Barbara. "The New Brain Trust." New York Magazine 24, no. 28 (July 22,1991):26-33.

Moscow Komsomolez, September 13, 1991.

"New Jersey Tour with Komar and Melamid." FlashArtXXlV, no.157 (March/April 1991):162.

Orduna, Arthur. "Unsanctioned Visions." Des Moines Skywalker, February 1319,1991, pp. 89.

Page, Amy. "Zimmerli Museum Gets Russian and Soviet Art Collections." The Antique Collector 62, no. 7 (July/August 1991):35.

Plagens, Peter. "Clinkers to Clevers to Chance." Newsweek CXVII, no. 2 (January 14, 1991):50.

The Print Collector's Newsletter XXII, no. 2 (May/June 1991):66-67.

The Print Collector's Newsletter XXII, no. 3 (July/August 1991) :90-91.

Ryabsky, Vladimir. "Varied Approach to the 'Iron Felix'." New Times, November 511, 1991, pp. 46-47.

Schwendenwein, Jude. artscribe, no. 87 (Summer 1991):69.

Semel, Nava. "Falling Angels in New Jersey." Studio Art Magazine (Israel) (March 1991 ):54-5.

Slotkin, Teri. NMixed Doubles." Bomb, no. 35 (Spring 1991):71-73.

Sokolov, Mikhail. "America's Number One." Business World, March 6, 1991.

"Soviet Pair Collaborate on Church Installation." Art Business News (March 1991):12.

"Team Spirit: Art in Pairs." FlashArtXXlV, no. 159 (Summer 1991).

"Timely Death of Komar & Melamid." Flash Art XXIV, no. 160 (October 1991):159.

"Unofficial Soviet Art Finds a Home at Rutgers." The Journal of Art 4, no. 10 (December 1991):10.

von Drateln, Doris. "Der Dialog mit dem Gleichen." Kunstforum (January/February 1991):180-191.

Wallach, Amei. "Censorship in the Soviet Bloc." art journal 50, no. 3 (Fall 1991):75-83.

_____. "Uncertain Times for Soviet Artists." New York Newsday, August 21, 1991, p. 45, 70.

Wollen, Peter. "Scenes from the Future." New Left Review, no 185 (January/February 1991 ) :69-80.

Zeaman, John. "Salvation and the Turnpike." Bergen County Record, January 27, 1991, pp. E1, E2.

1990

"Beyond Manhattan: Bayonne Manifesto." Glass Art Society Journal (1990) :65-66.

Bouilhet, Carline. "Komar, Melamid show presents true perestroika spirit." Anchorage Times, March 18, 1990, pp. 13, 15.

Calder, Diane. "Between Spring and Summer." High Performance, no. 53 (Spring 1990):61.

Colin, Muriel. "Moscou enflamme New York." Dynasteurs (France) (May 1990):14246.

"Death Poems." Real Life, no. 20,1 990:45.

Degener, Patricia. "Komar, Melamid: Double Barreled Commentary." St. Louis Dispatch, March 26, 1990.

Faust, Wolfgang Max. "An Uprising against Good Taste." ART, no. 9 (September 1990):13, 41.

"Gallery News: Stendhal Syndrome." FlashArtXXIII, no. 153 (September 1990):183.

"Gallery News: Perestroika." FlashArtXXIII, no. 154 (October 1990):172.

_____. "The Perils of Perestroika." Art in America 78, no. 3 (March 1990):46-51, 53, 55, 57, 59.

Glowen, Ron. "Letting Loose the Outsiders." Artweek (August 2, 1990):front page and p. 24.

"Grand Lobby Installation at Brooklyn Museum." Antiques and Collectibles (April 3, 1990). H

adenGuest, Anthony. "ArtNost." Vanity Fair (January 1990) :8286, 13640.

Hackett, Regina. "Art and the Soviet State." Seattle Post-lntelligencer, May 27, 1990.

_____. "Official vs. Unofficial? It's a Split Decision." Seattle Post-lntelligencer, February 15, 1990, pp. C1, C10.

Heartney, Eleanor. "Grisha Bruskin at Marlborough,"Art in America 78, no. 9 (September 1990):197-98.

_____. "Nowhere to Fly." Art in America 78, no. 3 (March 1990) :176-77.

ICA News 7, ICA Boston, no. S (Winter, 199091).

Jones-Butler, Jacqueline. "Two minds, four hands produce unique art." Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner, May 3, 1990, pp. 1516.

June, Carol. "Contemporary Soviet art hinges on ideas." North Shore Magazine (November 15, 1990).

Kimmelman, Michael. "Political Art Comes of Age In the U.S.S.R." New York Times, August 19, 1990, Arts & Leisure Section, pp. 37, 44.

"Komar & Melamid." Kunstforum (April/May, 1990):162 64.

"Komar & Melamid to install paintings in church." Bayonne Community News, December 5, 1990, p. 7.

Kostelanetz, Richard. "Soviet Art Then and Today." The Joumal of Art 3, no. 3 (December 1990):14.

Landers, Lisa. "Art Fest Planned for Park." Tribune (Florida), November 10, 1990.

Landini, Enrica Torelli. "Avanguardia; atto secondo." L'Espresso 28 (June 1990): 97-100.

Larson, Kay. "The Brooklyn Museum Iconoclasts." New York 23, no. 17 (April 30, 1990): 50-51.

Marger, Mary Ann. "Some Are Here, Some Are Missing." St. Petersburg Times, November 16, 1990, p. 35.

Mathieson, Karen. "Komar, Melamid: Mastering the Art of the Spoof." The Seattle Times, July 26, 1990.

McKenna, Kristine. "Two Soviet Artists Conquer the West." Los Angeles Times, Sunday, January 28,1990, pp. 3, 81-82.

Morrison, Keith. "Questioning the Quality Canon." New Art Examiner 18, no. 2 (October 1990):24-27.

Mudrak, Myroslava M. "Soviet Art Today: Vitality and Experimentation." ARTnews 89, no. 10 (December 1990): 172.

Nemser, Rebecca."Season's Greetings: Concepts from Russia with Love." The Boston Phoenix, November 9, 1990.

Paine, Janice. "This 'Art' More than Academic." Milwaukee Sentinel, July 20, 1990, pp.61-2.

"Prints & Photographs Published." Print Collector's Newsletter XXI, no. 3 (JulyAugust 1990):110.

"Provocative works redefine Soviet art." Times Marquee, March 11, 1990, pp. J1, J5.

Raether, Keith. "The Russians Have Come and Brought Art With Them." The Morning News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), June 13, 1990, pp. 67.

Raynor, Vivien. "A Provocative Look at Collaborations." The New York Times, Sunday, November 25, 1990.

"Satirizing Stalin Became Hit for Conceptual Artists." Seattle Post-lntelligencer, July 20, 1990.

Schjeldahl, Peter. "Painted Words." Seven Days 3, no. 7 (February 21, 1990):53-54.

Sietz, Henning. "The Market for Soviet Art." Contemporanea, no. 23 (December 1990):108-9.

Silverman, Dana. "Community Board Six: Nix on 'Red' Pix!" Our Town 20, no. 44 (New York) (February 25, 1990).

Smallwood, Lyn. "A Gathering of Dissidents." Seattle Weekly, June 27, 1990, pp. 5253. . "Exhuming the Devil." Seattle Weekly, July 25, 1990.

Smith, Owen. "On Looking through Western Eyes." Reflex 4, no. 4 (July/August 1990):14-17.

Sokolov, Mikhail. HRussian Art: The Crucial Century." Apollo (January 1990).

Spiegelman, Art. "High Art Lowdown." Artforum X)tIX, no. 4 (December 1990):115.

Spritzer, Pam. HBoard 6/On East Side, a New Yalta Conference." New York Observer 4, no. 8 (February 26, 1990).

Stapen, Nancy. "Soviet artists' 'underground' works surface at the ICA." The Boston Globe, 1990, pp. 61-65.

Tallmer, Jerry. "Irreverence, Russian style." New York Post, March, 23, 1990, p. 29.

Tarzan Ament, Deloris. "Underground Art." The Seattle Times, June 14, 1990, pp. F3, 6.

Temin, Christine. "Black and Blue in Red Square." The Boston Globe, November 3, 1990, pp. 16, 21.

Tully, Judd. "Not In Transit Anymore." Art & Auction Xll, no. 8 (March 1990):22, 24.

Van Siclen, Bill. "A feisty experimert in artistic glasnost." The Providence JournalBulletin, November 9, 1990, p. D5.

"Works by Komar & Melamid in Brooklyn Museum's Lobby." Antiques and the Arts Weekly (April 20,1990).

1989

Artics 1 (Barcelona), 1989:31 34.

Baker, Kenneth. "Komar and Melamid Take Bayonne." San Francisco Chronicle, September 9, 1989.

"Bayonne." The New Yorker (April 24, 1989):32-33.

Bijutsu Techo (Tokyo) (October 1989): 119-35 and cover.

Bonetti, David. "Worker's state to the worker's place.H San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 22, 1989.

Decter, Joshua. "Komar & Melamid: Perennial Tourists in an Adopted Land." Flash Art no. 148 (October 1989): 126-27.

Engerth, Ruediger. "Grober Spass, tiefere Bedeutung." Kurier (Austria), March 22, 1989.

"Feeling His Oats." Miami Herald, April 21,1989, p.19A.

Freudenheim, Susan. "Soviet art, emigre style." The Tribune (San Diego), October 25, 1989, pp. C1, C10.

Gugg, Anton. "Komar & Melamid." Noema Art Magazine no. 27/6 (November/December 1989):82-87.

Heartney, Eleanor. "Komar & Melamid." Art News 88, no. 8 (October 1989): 196.

Holt, Steven. "New York." Axis (Japan) (Summer 1989).

"HommageDemontage." Kunstecho's (Belgium) no. 5, 1989.

Hughes, Robert. "Canvases of Their Own." Time (April 10,1989):116-18.

Izumova, Elena. "Breaking All Barriers." Ogonek (USSR) (July 1989).

Jacobs, Karrie. "Discover Bayonne." Metropolis (June 1989).

Kennelly, Louise. "Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid: Russian Artists in Bayonne." Washington Review XV. no. 2 (August/September 1989): 10-11.

Knafo, Robert. "Born in the USSR." Connoisseur 219 (August 1989):20, 24.

Luebbers, Leslie. "Ljublajana: 1989." Print Collectors Newsletter XX, no. 4 (September/October 1989):130-32.

Moser, Ulli. "Bildzitate und Zitatbilder 'HommageDemontage' als Stil." DerStandard (Wien), March 16, 1989.

Ollman, Leah. "Thaw Erasing the Party Line in Soviet Art." Los Angeles Times, October 21, 1989.

Pincus, Robert L. "Komar and Melamid: 'The Art of TransState'." The San Diego Union, October 29, 1989, pp. E1, E4.

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

Puvogel, Renate. "Hommage Demontage." Hasselt (Belgium), (January/March 1989).

Schjeldahl, Peter. "Wild & Crazy Guys." Seven Days (February 1, 1989): 52-53.

Semones, Stanford L. "Soviet artists combine talent." The North Texas Daily, September 6, 1989.

Smith, Roberta. "2 Soviet Emigres Celebrate Their New Home, Bayonne." The New York Times, April 21, 1989.

Stasi, Lina. "Inside New York." Newsday, October 5, 1989.

Titz, Walter. "Im Spiegelkabinett." Kleine Zeitung (Wien) (March 1989).

Tupitsyn, Margarita. Flash Art, Russian edition, No. 1, 1989: 107-11.

Tyson, Janet. "Soviet emigre artists cook up a smorgasbord." Fort Worth StarTelegram, September 19, 1989, section 4, p. 3.

Ugresic, Dubravka. "Socialist Realism." Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 1989.

Vuegen, Christine. "HommageDemontage." Kunst Beeld (Belgium) (December 1988/January 1989).

Wasserman, Isabelle. "Exhibit focuses on Soviet pair's mixture of architecture and art." The San Diego Union, October22, 1989, p. E6.

Westreich, Joan. 'The Muscovites of Bayonne." Newsweek International, no. 19 (May 8, 1989): 51.

Wilson, William. "Russian Treasure." Los Angeles Times, October 28, 1989.

Woodward, Richard B. "ART." Vogue (July 1989). 'Two Wild and Crazy Emigres Discover Bayonne." The New York Times, March 26, 1989.

1988

Boym, Constantin. "Ci SeNe Molto Rosso." Modo (Italy) (May 1988): 105, 142-43.

Bohnen, Uli. "Hommage Demontage." Tema Celeste, No. 17/18 (October/November 1988).

Brenson, Michael. "The Social Club." The New York Times, January 22, 1988.

FernandezCid, Miguel. "K8M, pintores y disidentes, exponen en la galeria Moriarty.H El Diario,. October 11, 1988.

Funken, Peter. "Hommage Demontage." Kvnstforum, no. 96 (AugustOctober 1988).

Groys, Boris. "A La Recherche du Pouvoir Artistique Perdu." Les Cahiers du Musee National d'Art Modeme (France), no. 26 (Winter 1988):73-

91. "L'Oeuvre d'Art Staline." Les Cahiers du Musee National d'Art Moderne (France) no. 23 (Spring 1988): 94-99.

Hohmeyer, Jurgen. "Stalin von innen." Der Spiegel, no. 34, 1988.

Lehmann, Ulrike. "KickenPauseback, Koln, Neue Gesellschaft Fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin." Noema no. 18/19, 1988.

Levashov, Vladimir. "From SotsArt to Sotsartism." Iskusstvo/Art (Moscow) no. 10, 1988.

Levy, Mark. "Exploring Freedom's Limit." Artweek 19, no.13 (April 2, 1988).

O'Brien, Glenn. Interview (February 1988):120.

Sarje, Kimmo. "Post Moskova." Helsingen Sanomat. (Helsinki) March 6, 1988.

Schulz, Bernhard. "Die Kraft der Desillusionierung." Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin). August 21, 1988.

Sherman, Mary. "Russian duo's work spans a wide range." Chicago SunTimes, November 11,1988, p. 64-65.

Straus, Cees. "Russen Op De Keizersgracht." KunstBeeld (December/January 1988).

Tupitsyn, Margarita. "Dalla Sots Art Alla Sovart." Flash Art (February 1988) :49.

_____."Le Pop a la Mode Sovietique." Les Cahiers du Musee Nationa/ d'Art Moderne #26, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, (Winter 1988):60-72.

Van Veelen, Ijsbrand. "De kunst inspiratiebron voor hedendaagse kunst." Het Parool (Holland) (December 6, 1988).

Wallach, Amei. "From Bayonne, With Love." New York Newsday 49, no. 204 (March 28, 1988).

1987

McDonald, John. "Wise Jesters of Contemporary Art." Sydney Morning Herald, July 18, 1987, p. 49.

McGill, Douglas C. "Art People." New York Times, October 2, 1987, p. 26.

Portus, Martin. "ln The Steps of Stalin." Sydney Morning Herald, July 17, 1987, n.p.

Tupitsyn, Margarita. "Distorters of Soviet Reality." Last Issue 4 (Winter 1987):cover and 16-19.

Woodward, Richard B. "Nobody's Fools." Artnews 86 (November 1987):172-78.

1986

de Graaf, Rob and Edma van Duyn. "It's Time For Us." Archis (The Netherlands) (March 1986): 26-30.

Frazier, lan. "Profiles: Partners." New Yorker 62 (December 29, 1986): 33-54.

Graw, Isabelle. "Tanze mir den Stalin." WolkenkraeerArtJournal (Germany) (FebruaryApril 1986): 75-77.

Hegge, Per Egil. "Renessensegjon med Stalin." AMagasinet (Norway), no. 8 (February 22, 1986):n.p.

Indiana, Gary. "Komar & Melamid." El Paseante (Spain), no. 1 (Winter 1986):41-54.

Leonhart, Mark Michael. NewArtExaminer (November 1986):50. McCormick, Carlo. Artforum (October 1986) :131-32.

Nekrasov, Viktor. 'The Show of Komar & Melamid." Strelez (France) no. 2 (February 1986): 46.

Sozanski, Edward. "Together with Chutzpah, They Make Art." Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 1986, p. 1.

1985

Ball, lan. "Iron Curtain Satire." Daily Telegraph/Telegraph Sunday Magazine (Great Britain) August 18, 1985, n.p.

Indiana, Gary. "Komar& Melamid Confidential." Art in America 73 (June 1985):cover, 94-101.

Johnson, Thomas. "Les Exiles Sovietiques veulent rentrer en URSS?" Actuel (France) no. 67, 1985:130-37.

Steenhuis, Paul. "De posttotalitaire Kunst van Komar & Melamid." Vrij Nederland (The Netherlands) (June 15, 1985) :34-37.

"The Talk of the Town-Komar & Melamid." New Yorker (December 9, 1985):35-36.

Zand, Nicole. "Komar et Melamid au Pavillon Marsan." Le Monde (Paris), December 26, 1985.

1984

Banes, Sally. "Performance: Theory, Praxisand Vodka." The Village Voice, April 3, 1984, n.p.

Carrier, David. "Meditation on a Portrait of Comrade Stalin." Arts 59 (October 1984):100-02.

Glueck, Grace. "Two Soviet Emigres Whose Art Is Overlaid with Irony." New York Times, January 29, 1984, p. 25.

Graaf, Vera. "Maleri: Augerstehung in Manhattan." Stern (Germany) (March 1984):216-17.

Levin, Kim. "Artful Dodgers." Village Voice XXIX, February 7, 1984, 80.

1983

Gambrell, Jamey. "Vitaly Komar-Aleksandre Melamid." A-Ya, no. 5 (1983).

1982

Fields, Marc. "Komar and Melamid and the Luxury of Style." Artforum 16 (April 1982):58-63.

Gambrell, Jamey. "Komar & MelamidF -rom behind the Ironical Curtain." Artforum 20 (April 1982): 58-63.

Hughes, Robert. "Through the Ironic Curtain." Time 120 (October 25, 1982): 73.

Larson, Kay. "Kidding the Kremlin." New York 15 (October 11, 1982): 78.

1979

Burnham, Jack. "Komar & Melamid Post USSR Get Religion." Art in America 67 (February 1979): 13.

Zinik, Zinovii. "SotsArt." Syntaxis (Paris) no 3, 1979.

1978

Goldstein, Richard. "The Hard Thing Is to Paint without Orders." Village Voice 23, October 16, 1978, pp. 66-67.

Marzorati, Gerald. "Komar and MelamidArt of Dissidence." Soho Weekly News, October 5, 1978, p.19.

1977

Glueck, Grace. "Dissidence as a Way of Art." New York Times Magazine, May 8, 1977, p. 33.

_____. "Soviet's Solution to Pair of Satirical Artists: Give Just One a Visa." New York Times, October 31, 1977, p. 2.

1976

Eco, Umberto. "Bevente Breshnev Cola." L'Espresso (Italy), March 7,1976. pp. 64-71.

Genauer, Emily. International Herald Tribune, February 20, 1976.

Glueck, Grace. "Art Smuggled Out of Russia Makes Satiric Show Here." New York Times, February 7, 1976, n.p.

Leonard, John. "Smuggled Soviet Art Is a Witty Variation on Ideology." New York Times, February 20, 1976, p. 44.

Newman, Amy. HThe Celebrated Artists of the End of the Second Millennium A.D." Artnews 75 (April 1976) :4346.

"Russian Imps." Newsweek 87 (February 16,1976):89.

Seiberling, Dorothy. "A Russian Life: Tiny Pictures at an Exhibition." New York 9 (February 9, 1976):3942.

Shipler, David K. "Impish Artists Twit the State." New York Times, February 7, 1976, p. 23.

1974

Gold, Herbert. "In Russian, 'To Be Silent' Is an Active Verb." Playboy 21 (October 1974):196200.

Smith, Hedrick. "Young Soviet Painters Score Socialist Art." The New York Times. March 19. 1974.

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