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, ...

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 ...

Ilya Kabakov with his 1983–84 The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, New York, August 1988. Photo: Marty Lederhandler/AP. WHEN I MET ILYA KABAKOV for the first time, in 1977, he was already ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is turning out to be a banner year for Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, perhaps Russia’s best-known living artists. Although superstars overseas—commanding multimillion-dollar prices for their canvases, ...

The role of the viewer is to listen, to look, and to understand (or to read, look, and understand). It is like the role of the reader—to look and compare what he sees with what is in his mind. Ilya ...

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 ...

ILYA KABAKOV is arguably the paradigmatic installation artist, known above all for his theorization of the immersive “total installation,” and its execution in dozens of large-scale works made since ...