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Articles by Andrew Solomon: Visual Art


Oct 2020

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 ...

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?