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Articles by Andrew Solomon: All Articles


Mar 1991

Moscow Encore

A nobleman’s palace and theater set the stage for czarist entertainments.

Feb 1991

This Blinkered Isle

On the xenophobia of the British art establishment.

Jan 1991

Fashioning a Style

Costume curator Katell le Bourhis is a connoisseur of chic, past and present.

Dec 1990

Dancers Unite

The Kremlin Palace is not a company set on overwhelming us with flashy work; its directors are setting out painstakingly from scratch.

Nov 1990

Showing His Colors

The bold designs of Patrick Frey break the greige barrier of conventional French taste.

Oct 1990

Gotham Romance

In her grand Fifth Avenue apartment, decorator Hethea Nye indulges her taste for luxury.

Sep 1990

Remaking History

The effect of these rooms is human and intimate even when they seem to ooze history from their vast surfaces.

Sep 1990

Decorators’ Private Domains

When the only client they have to accommodate is themselves, decorators give free rein to personal taste.

Aug 1990

The Light of Derby

He is equally fascinated by the technical detail of the scientific event taking place and by the confused, distracted, and astonished responses of the audience.

May 1990

Sensuous Modernism

The house seems to be full of the echoes of personages from every realm.