Deborah Solomon was born on August 9,1957 and is an American art critic, journalist and biographer.
15 Facts About Deborah Solomon
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Deborah Solomon writes for The New York Times, where she was previously a columnist.
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Deborah Solomon was the art critic for WNYC Public Radio, the New York City affiliate of NPR.
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Deborah Solomon is sometimes confused with another reporter, Deborah B Solomon, who is a financial journalist now working at The New York Times after a long career at The Wall Street Journal.
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Deborah Solomon was educated at Cornell University, where she majored in art history and served as the associate editor of The Cornell Daily Sun.
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Deborah Solomon earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1979.
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Deborah Solomon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001 in the category of biography.
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Deborah Solomon began her career writing about art for various publications, including The New Criterion.
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Deborah Solomon has written extensively about American painting and is a frequent interviewer on art subjects.
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On November 29,2010, at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Deborah Solomon interviewed actor Steve Martin regarding his new novel, An Object of Beauty, which is based in the New York art world.
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The interview became "a debacle" when, midway through the conversation, a Y representative handed Deborah Solomon a note asking her to talk more about Martin's movie career.
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On February 4,2011, Deborah Solomon stepped down from writing her weekly column to write in house and continue her biography of Norman Rockwell.
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Deborah Solomon is currently at work on a full-scale biography of the American artist Jasper Johns, who authorized the book, and about whom she has written since 1988.
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Deborah Solomon "detected a pattern of pedophilia" in his selection and portrayal of child models.
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Deborah Solomon is married to Kent Sepkowitz, an infectious-disease specialist and the Deputy Physician-in-Chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and frequent contributor to various publications.