Bill Viola’s Video Arcade
Viola uses technology to blur the distinctions between the visible and the invisible, the abstract and the concrete...
Feb 1998
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Appeared in New York Times
Feb 1997
The Jazz Martyr
Keith Jarrett still considers himself the conscience of jazz, and he doesn't hesitate to tell you why.
Aug 1996
On Each Palette, a Choice of Political Colors
On Taiwan, style is ideology. Traditional suggests unification with Beijing; conceptual, independence; oils, the ruling centrists.
Mar 1996
“Don’t Mess With Our Cultural Patrimony!”
A tale of politically loaded Chinese treasures, angry young Taiwanese, nervous corporate sponsors, and a sudden punch in the face.
Oct 1995
The Spoils of War
Review of "Beautiful Loot," by Konstantin Akinsha and Grigorii Kozlov with Sylvia Hochfield.
Oct 1995
Gore Vidal Receives a Visitor
Vidal of the memoir is, depressingly enough, as charming as a poodle skirt with a tennis sweater, as chic as old Balenciaga.
Oct 1995
Produced in the Soviet Dark, Collected by a Secret Admirer
An entire epoch in Russia's cultural history now has its major repository in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Jun 1995
Works From the Underground, Freed by Glasnost
Lost Russian artists, ruined work, missing materials, all put right at a huge show in Munich.
Mar 1995
Bruce Nauman, Complex Cowboy
Viewing his influential artwork is like walking through psychoanalysis: full of obsession, anxiety and wisdom.
Sep 1994
Special Effects the New Old-Fashioned Way
Unlike human actors, puppets can be mutilated, burned, sent flying and transformed into inhuman things. But unlike what goes on in the movies, it is real.
Most Recent Writings
Buy The New Book
Visit the interactive site
