Monday, April 21, 2008

70's Art, Soviet Style

Sunday's New York Times had a rave review of a new show at the Neuberger Museum. “Komar and Melamid: Super Objects — Super Comfort for Super People” presents an art project created in 1977 by two Russian conceptual artists, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. The Times says that the work is "widely admired as a seminal art project by these two pioneers of the Moscow conceptual art movement," and that the show, though small, "couldn’t be more rewarding." The exhibition runs through May 4. Neuberger Museum of Art
SOURCE: The New York Times: Skewering Soviet Dogma and Consumerism, Too
Image: The New York Times