The Globe in a Handscroll
Shen's handscroll is intended to be savored over many days, like a leisurely sojourn in the mountains. Looking at it is like reading a long-form poem or a meditative work ...
Oct 2020
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Visual Art
Jan 2015
William in Exile
Both the melancholy and the exuberance of William Kentridge's work hinge on the impossibility of resolving most human problems.
Oct 2013
The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in the Days of Glasnost
These are memories and reflections of an eyewitness and direct participant of those events.
Aug 2011
Zen and the Art of Xu Bing
In Xu Bing’s work, words are not superimposed on the detritus of the event; they emerge, instead, as the voids, the literal nothingness on the gallery floor.
Nov 2009
Paintings by Anne Connell
You see at once that the work is beautiful, but you can tell that it is not simply about its own beauty.
Sep 2009
The Third Mind
Review of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989."
Oct 2005
Tours De Force
Review of "Ballets Russes," by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.
Mar 2005
From Imaging to Image
With imaging, what was abstract becomes palpable; what we comprehend visually is more convincing to us than numeric sequences.
Oct 2004
This Diverse Realm, This Melting Pot, This…China?
Review of the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, "China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 A.D."
Apr 2004
Dandyism
What is the purpose of men’s clothing of style, be that style extravagant or controlled?
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