
Deborah Solomon
Economics Editor at The New York Times
Art critic and prize-winning biographer. Regular contributor to the New York Times. At work on a full-scale biography of Jasper Johns.
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5 days ago |
nytimes.com | Holland Cotter |Jason Farago |Wesley Morris |Deborah Solomon
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Our critics pick 11 outstanding exhibitions — many still on view this summer —and tour the renewed Frick Collection and the Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. People walk through the exhibition “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” 2025, at the Museum of Modern Art. The work is Whitten’s monumental “9.11.01.,” from 2006.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Colby Smith |Tara Siegel Bernard |Ron Lieber |Deborah Solomon
PinnedUpdated June 18, 2025, 12:04 p.m. ETThe Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at the conclusion of its latest meeting on Wednesday, extending a pause that has been in place since January. Officials have assumed a wait-and-see approach until they have more clarity on how President Trump’s trade war, immigration crackdown and plans to slash taxes, among other policies, will effect the economy.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Deborah Solomon
If the Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged as expected on Wednesday, it will be an outlier among major central banks. Policymakers at the European Central Bank, the Bank of Canada and other central banks have all announced rate cuts in recent months, largely in response to the effects of President Trump’s trade war, which is expected to slow global growth.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Deborah Solomon
At the Whitney, her pristine and color-drenched paintings of neighbors and dreamers and a kid on a slide challenge the conventions of portraiture. It has been Amy Sherald's fate to be known for one painting only. Her portrait of Michelle Obama, commissioned in 2018 by the National Portrait Gallery, brought the artist overnight fame.
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Mar 13, 2025 |
nytimes.com | Deborah Solomon
As far as biblical heroines go, Esther was relatively low-maintenance and docile. She did not take up arms or slay any enemies. For much of her life, she lived quietly amid the sandy flats and cypress trees of ancient Persia (now mainly Iran), pretending to be Christian. An orphan, she was raised by her older cousin Mordecai, who coached her to conceal her faith in an age of religious persecution.
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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

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. https://t.co/INeWjAnCje

According to the digital clocks at Penn Station, today is January 4th and Biden is still president. https://t.co/al5zjkUivp