Shelling Out for Fabergé
All work is born of the triple inspiration of commercial self-interest, visual problem-solving, and communicable ideas.
All work is born of the triple inspiration of commercial self-interest, visual problem-solving, and communicable ideas.
Literature is a place where we can construct new realities together, but unless the literature available to us is representative, those new realities threaten to reconstruct the prejudice and discrimination of the world we live in. — Ai Weiwei
In their New York gallery, Andrew Solomon meets Haim Manishevitz and his wife Audrey Friedman, untiring collectors of art deco, and inveterate anecdotalists.
Drawing: “Quick intimate marks serving a vision — with skill”
Paul Holdengräber chats with Andrew Solomon about American isolationism, global violence, and the distinction between travel and tourism.
Andrew Solomon travelled to Moscow and met the Paper Architects.
Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the earth’s blurred reality.
The status of the artist in Soviet society at present is both exalted and ridiculous.
He has gifts of compassion and close attention that make people keen to confide in him.
The two sales that are coming up this month make an extraordinary pair.