Articles by Andrew Solomon:

The events of 9/11 immediately affected a population that came from all over the world, so there is some poetry in the idea that a Chinese artist living part-time in New ...

Until surprisingly recently, conventional wisdom held that anything from the East that resembled contemporary work produced in the West was derivative, and yet anything ...

The three ballet companies that emerged following Diaghilev’s death in 1929 and the subsequent dissolution of his legendary Ballet Russe were the greatest dance troupes ...

Until fairly recently the history of China has been imperial history, and the art history has been the imperial collection, now housed in the Palace Museums of Taipei and ...

Hayden Herrera has written the definitive biography of Arshile Gorky — lucid, persuasive, meticulous, intimate and refreshingly cleareyed. Gorky is the sort of artist ...

The Barnes Collection is a private museum outside Philadelphia established by the industrialist Alfred Barnes in 1925. Barnes was a bellicose visionary who acquired works ...

Profile of the artist Frank Moore.

The reopening of the National Gallery in Kabul in February took place in the dark. The electricity was out again, a casualty of war, and no one could get the gallery’s ...

At an exhibition of early Picasso last year at the National Gallery in Washington, a woman in a red dress stood in front of a beautifully drawn nude and said with surprise: ...

Artists are too busy to keep art in motion. Someone else has to organize exhibitions, pay for them and write the criticism. Someone else has to give the parties at which ...