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Articles by Andrew Solomon: Visual Art


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.

Feb 1995

The Vision Thing

As a major Richard Avedon exhibition opens in London, Andrew Solomon meets America's most famous and elusive photographer in New York.

Dec 1994

Moscow in New York

Lomography is not an art form; it's a way of being.

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.

Aug 1994

Squadrons of the Anonymous

Review of "Magdalena Abakanowicz," by Barbara Rose.

Mar 1994

The Artists of South Africa: Separate, and Equal

Black art needs no white sympathy, but the reception it meets from whites is often patronizing or exploitative.

Dec 1993

Their Irony, Humor (and Art) Can Save China

Meet the willful, playful young artists who may be China's most subversive dissidents.

Dec 1993

Komar and Melamid

Komar and Melamid are the kings of nostalgia, ardent for the very sorrows that once gave them a claim to tragedy.