Deborah Solomon
@deborahsolo
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Art critic and prize-winning biographer. Regular contributor to the New York Times. At work on a full-scale biography of Jasper Johns.
Joined July 2010
Thank you, Mary!
"You could say he foregrounded the magic of art and left blackness in the background." You could only say that if you were as insightful as Deborah Solomon @deborahsolo 👇 Explore this gift article from The New York Times.
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I reviewed the Frick’s new show, “Vermeer’s Love Letters,” and argued that there’s nothing in the paintings to suggest romantic intrigue. https://t.co/rgFxBVgw0L via @NYTimes
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The Frick’s first post-renovation show unites three Vermeer masterpieces that explore letter-writing and (maybe) love affairs.
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Thank you, Michele!
A very eye-opening review of the wonderful #Vermeer exhibtion @frickcollection. Thanks @deborahsolo https://t.co/ze2tCi1JhF via @NYTimes
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There are two superb art shows to be seen in Philadelphia right now: Cecily Brown at the @BarnesFDN and Christina Ramberg at the @Philamuseum. Here's my NYT review.
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Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the female gaze.
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Oh no! Went to bed in 2025 and woke up in 1937, when Hitler declared modern art "degenerate" and removed it from state-owned museums.
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According to the digital clocks at Penn Station, today is January 4th and Biden is still president.
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"Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master who invented realism in the 17th century..." Wait. What? "who invented realism" Three words tossed in that I'll now be thinking about for three months (or three years). From the always illuminating @deborahsolo
https://t.co/YaKcpy1UG7
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A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some artists today.
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Thanks, @JoyceCarolOates. Friedrich was onto something Hitchcockian in his “ruckenfigurs,” which means showing a figure from the back.
at the Casper David Friedrich exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with brilliant art critic/historian Deborah Solomon (who took this picture of Friedrich's most famous painting just as I was taking a picture of it).
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Dear @NYPL, Are you aware that your website keeps asking viewers to identify words like this? What is this word? How can I convince you I am not a robot?
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https://t.co/xCnLat6npQ via @NYTimes It was never clear whether Mr. Robinson thought of himself as an artist who wrote about art or a writer who painted. Rather than settling on either, he seemed to relish his identity as a double agent.
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A painter who took his subjects from pop culture, he was also the founding editor of Artnet.com and chronicled the rise of the SoHo art scene in the 1970s.
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Here’s the obituary I wrote of the great Walter Robinson. 💔
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A painter who took his subjects from pop culture, he was also the founding editor of Artnet.com and chronicled the rise of the SoHo art scene in the 1970s.
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“White Castle,” by Walter Robinson (2013), melts the ice and cynicism out of Pop art. R.I.P., dear Walter.
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Sad, sad news. The great Walter Robinson —painter, art writer, husband of Lisa Rosen, and unofficial mayor of the art world —has died at age 75, after a short bout with cancer. R.IP.💔
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Why do writers write? The art critic Robert Hughes had a theory. He once said that writers write for the same reason that idiots bang their heads against a wall: It feels so good when you stop.
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Philip Guston’s “Book,” (1968), at the @MetMuseum, embraces extremes of cartooniness and solemnity.
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Michelangelo Pistoletto, who’s now 92, is showing paintings of QR codes. If you scan one with your phone, you will be linked to an interview with him. At @LevyGorvy.
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Thank you, Boris !
It’s the birthday of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), whose name we don’t usually associate with LA, but it was at Manual Arts High that he (and classmate Philip Guston!) found an early mentor, Frederick Schwankovsky (1885-1974). @deborahsolo’s biography paints a vivid picture.
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I. Rice Pereira’s swervy “Monument II (Congress)”was done in 1938, after she visited D.C. and marveled at the way radios and electric fans had brought a new chic to the city. At #MichaelRosenfeldGallery.
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R.I.P. Jo Baer, who has died at age 95. A born Minimalist, she switched horses in mid-stream and took up what she called “radical figuration.” Here she is in 2017, the impressively far-oldest painter in the Whitney Biennial. Condolences to her son Josh of Baer Faxt fame.
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Great to see Raoul Dufy’s mood-lifting “30 Years or la Vie en Rose,” in the current exhibition about the unfairly written-out-of-history art dealer Berthe Weill, at NYU’s Grey Art Museum.
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