“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.
Mar 1996
Articles by Andrew Solomon:Visual Art
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.
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.
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