About Ilya Josifovich Kabakov

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    "lya Kabakov, 89, Dies; Soviet-Born Artist Depicted Grimness With Wit," Obituary, The New York Times, June 2, 2023 by Penelope Green.

    In often fantastical paintings, drawings and immersive installations, he explored the privations and indignities of the Soviet life he would flee, landing on Long Island.

    Ilya Kabakov, a celebrated artist whose immersive installations, paintings and drawings told sardonically witty stories about the dreams and interior lives of those who had endured the deprivations and degradations of the Soviet era he grew up in, died on May 27 in a hospital near his home and studio in Mattituck, N.Y., on the East End of Long Island. He was 89.

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