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Articles by Andrew Solomon: All Articles


Apr 1992

Patterns of Family Life

The textures and colors of everyday comfort mix in cheerful profusion at the London house of Sir Peter and Lady Osborne.

Mar 1992

Hadley Pure and Simple

For his New York apartment, one of Parish-Hadley’s guiding lights distills the essence of a lifetime of looking.

Jan 1992

Russia Rediscovered

Where Lenin used to lie, there is now a space occupied half by the czar (long may he live) and half by the Profit Motive.

Nov 1991

Those Sumptuous Russian-Flavored Storybooks

Russian culture is, traditionally, exuberantly child-oriented and unabashedly kitschy... Kitsch at its best is only the glorious overrichness and brightness of childhood ...

Nov 1991

The Art of Friendship

Heiner Bastian surrounds himself with work by artists he knows.

Nov 1991

Soviet Art Assumes Place in World Market

The market is beginning to limit itself to the bounds of reason, and it is slowly becoming less speculative.

Sep 1991

Three Days in August

The artists found out long ago that the way to combat a government that presents lies as if they were the truth is to tell the truth as if it were a joke.

Jul 1991

Serving the Revolution

The Revolution established both a new moral system and a new standard of tableware in one fell swoop.

Jul 1991

Mission to Moscow

An account of Sotheby's 1988 sale of contemporary Soviet art, adapted from "The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost."

Jun 1991

Soviet Real Life

Private ownership inspires a decorative revolution at home.