The once-Russian, now-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid got together to look back over the art they created as a team, the places they lived and the times they lived through.
The director of the Zimmerli Art Museum, which is home to the world's foremost collection of Soviet nonconformist art, says recent calls to censor all Russian art in light of the war in Ukraine oversimplify the issue
The Coral Gables Museum will be the first stop of a traveling exhibition titled Painting in Excess: Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985 - 1993, a series of Ukrainian avant-garde works revealing freedom during the transitional time when Ukraine came out from under the rule of the former Soviet Union. The current war in Ukraine adds a unique value to these works as they are expressions of a tumultuous time that nurtured the country’s independence. The exhibition was on display at the .
With heightened interest in Ukraine, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick has extended Painting in Excess: Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985–1993 through April 10, 2022.