It’s a story the art world has etched in stone. After Stalin died in 1953, the frozen Soviet Union saw Khrushchev’s Thaw. Artists and intellectuals found themselves suddenly uncensored, which ...

On Art (2018), cover image, (all images courtesy Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and the University of Chicago Press) On Art, a new collection of essays by Ilya Kabakov, recently translated and edited into ...

Ilya Kabakov is a Ukrainian-born American Conceptual artist best known for his paintings, installations, and theoretical texts that would eventually spur the Moscow Conceptualism movement. His works ...

In often fantastical paintings, drawings and immersive installations, he explored the privations and indignities of the Soviet life he would flee, landing on Long Island. By Penelope Green Ilya ...

The project’s latest iteration opened on 31 May at Oakville Galleries on Lake Ontario, near Toronto, amid US President Donald Trump’s threats of annexing Canada. It is part of an exhibition of the ...

The Ukrainian American conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov died during the night on Saturday, May 27 at the age of 89, his family confirmed. Taking his experiences of life under the Soviet Union as his ...

For the first half of his career, Ilya Kabakov made art for a couple dozen friends. He showed it in his apartment so as not to attract attention. Living in the Soviet Union under a totalitarian regime ...

People attend the presentation of 'The Ship of Tolerance' by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov during the 11th Biennial of Art of Havana, Cuba. Photograph: Alejandro Ernesto/Corbis Mattituck, at the far end of ...

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In 1988 visitors to the Ron Feldman gallery in New York were introduced to The Man Who Describes His Life Through Other Characters. Living with nine others, one to a room, in a faithfully recreated, ...