Komar and Melamid

[Russian-born American Conceptual Artists]

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Vitaly Komar, Born 1943
Alexander Melamid, Born 1945

Russian dissident artists. Emigrated to the United States in 1978.

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Original works by Komar and Melamid available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Home Page:

Komar and Melamid Home Page

Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Dia Center for the Arts, New York City
The Most Wanted Paintings

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Moore College of Art + Design, Philadelphia
Komar & Melamid's Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project Online

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
When Elephants Paint

Philadelphia Art Alliance
Komar & Melamid's American Dreams

Plattsburgh State University Art Museum, New York
Siren

Pictures from Image Archives:

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database

Other Web Sites:

Artnet Artist Works Catalogues

Percent for Art Program
Public art in New York City

Articles:

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Artnet Magazine
Sample elephant paintings

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 16): Komar and Melamid

Resource Library Magazine
Bolsheviks Returning Home after a Demonstration, 1981-82

Time Magazine
"Through the Ironic Curtain", 1982 article by Robert Hughes

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Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art

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