By Jeffrey Hogrefe 10/20/97 12:00am

Komar & Melamid’s Dreams; Dannheisser’s Prima Donnas

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid have been plagued by some pretty bizarre dreams involving George Washington and Vladimir Lenin in a variety of intriguing tableaux. Sometimes Washington and Lenin appear together in the same dream as puppets in a store window, sometimes there’s only one. Soon after they Read More

By Hilton Kramer 10/13/97 12:00am

Matthew Barney’s Buttocks In Dismal New MoMA Show

I received a phone call the other day from a writer who is preparing a profile of the well-known slogan artist Barbara Kruger, and from him I learned that in her next show, Ms. Kruger will make her debut as, like, a sculptor. What we can look forward to, I gather, is a three-dimensional effigy Read More