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This poster was created for Komar and Melamid’s We Buy and Sell Souls, a conceptual art project the Soviet artists launched soon after their emigration to the United States. They formed a corporation…
Bulatov created many paintings that paired nature scenes with Soviet slogans, suggesting the pervasiveness of the Soviet regime, extending to every corner of its citizens’ lives. Here, in Trademark…
In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
Jacob’s Ladder, painted by Grobman after immigrating to Israel, continues the artistic approach he formulated in the 1960s in the Soviet Union—i.e., “magical symbolism,” which used mystical imagery…
The setting for The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment is modeled on a communal apartment in which Kabakov once lived in Moscow. The walls of the small, shabby space are papered with upbeat…
Drawing of a wooden synagogue from Maximilian Syrkin’s 1910 article, “Drevníya derevyannyye sinagogi v pol’she litve” (Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania). Wooden synagogues were a common form of…
