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Deborah Solomon

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Deborah Solomon (born August 9, 1957, New York City) is an American art critic, journalist and biographer. She writes primarily for The New York Times and her weekly column, "Questions For," ran in The New York Times Magazine from 2003 to 2011. Her art reviews appear on WNYC Radio.

Solomon was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. Her parents, Jerry and Sally Solomon, owned an art gallery. She was educated at Cornell University, where she majored in art history and served as the associate editor of The Cornell Daily Sun. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1979. The following year, she received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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“It's as if a thousand different sensations have been merged, but just barely, and only by a superhuman act of creativity.”
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“… a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.”
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“… his hands got in the way of his art, preventing him from recording sensation as quickly as he experienced it.”
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