Deborah Solomon

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). https://t.co/qyJ7XgbSZF

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? https://t.co/EyFQXE5Ze5

RT @bagrau: https://t.co/xCnLat6npQ via @NYTimes It was never clear whether Mr. Robinson thought of himself as an artist who wrote about ar…

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

“White Castle,” by Walter Robinson (2013), melts the ice and cynicism out of Pop art. R.I.P., dear Walter. https://t.co/2Oum0wKcPk

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.💔 https://t.co/ACckFWNOty

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.

Philip Guston’s “Book,” (1968), at the @MetMuseum, embraces extremes of cartooniness and solemnity. https://t.co/6joa9YMVv5

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. https://t.co/SmF6P1WP4I

Thank you, Boris !

Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk

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. https://t.co/VbCuw7DH0B

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. https://t.co/2MqeBHh74o

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. https://t.co/yKn9gkknFr

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. https://t.co/wmGM3tW1hQ

Felt like I was looking at an escapee from a Salvador Dali painting on the subway today. https://t.co/yhoqiUectC

Beckett said that Caspar David Friedrich's "Two Men Contemplating the Moon," an icon of German romanticism, inspired him to write the decidedly unromantic "Waiting for Godot." Looking forward to the Friedrich show opening at the @MetMuseum next month. https://t.co/jqoxHt3jgx

A fond farewell to the wonderful Raquel Rabinovich, an underknown abstract artist who spent seven decades in pursuit of quiet, contemplative truths. She was 95 years old. R.I.P. 💐 https://t.co/oZFOPrLRJx

I second this.

Garth Greenwell @GarthGreenwell

Please read this extraordinary report from the great Colm Tóibín on life among the California fires. https://t.co/FIQelZn1GC @LRB