Deborah Solomon

Art critic and prize-winning biographer. Regular contributor to the New York Times. At work on a full-scale biography of Jasper Johns.

[alain servais @aservais1]

With Bends, Crinkles & a Cool Decor Makeover, Carol Bove Takes @Guggenheim. She extracts something new from steel, dispelling its aura of brawn. Her signature form is a rumpled ribbon of metal painted to look as soft as suede. By @deborahsolo #GiftArticle https://t.co/7it8QhycLY

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Thank you, Mary!

[Mary Gregory @MGregoryWriter]

"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
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. https://t.co/v3ygY2kxc9

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@CsweeneyArtist @nytimes Why do you call it rubbish? Possible that Vermeer borrowed a camera obscura, no?

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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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@Donald_Lindeman Aha! No wonder the letter writer appears startled. Interesting theory.

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Thank you, Michele!

[Michele Bogart @urbaninsideout]

A very eye-opening review of the wonderful #Vermeer exhibtion ⁦@frickcollection⁩. Thanks ⁦@deborahsolo⁩ https://t.co/ze2tCi1JhF via @NYTimes

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@MGregoryWriter Thank you, Mary!

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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.
https://t.co/rij4mpOGGU

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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.

[Mary Gregory @MGregoryWriter]

"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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@MGregoryWriter Thanks, Mary. Glad you are still on Twitter.

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Thanks, @JoyceCarolOates. Friedrich was onto something Hitchcockian in his “ruckenfigurs,” which means showing a figure from the back.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

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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@ringer @LeoSepkowitz Very well-written piece, thank you!

[barbara graustark @bagrau]

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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@clintwrede Thank you, Clint!

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Here’s the obituary I wrote of the great Walter Robinson. 💔 https://t.co/5Iqv926vaw

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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.💔