The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in the Days of Glasnost
These are memories and reflections of an eyewitness and direct participant of those events.
Oct 2013
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Auctions & Exhibitions
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.
Sep 2009
The Third Mind
Review of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989."
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."
Nov 2001
An Ancient Garden Youthfully Abloom
From classical painting to bold conceptualism, a far flung culture sprouts an abundance of styles.
Oct 2000
Gem Dandy
The Dresden Green diamond will be "Dresden's ambassador to the United States."
May 1998
China: 5,000 Years
It isn't easy to mount a terrible show in which each piece of art is absolutely fantastic.
Nov 1995
Günther Förg
Günther Förg's photos of Moscow are very, very beautiful. This comes as no surprise vis-a-vis Förg, but is really quite astonishing vis-a-vis Moscow.
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.
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