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Author Archives: Suzanne Loebl
Farewell to David Rockefeller
One of the pleasures of being a biographer is that one becomes intimate with one’s subjects without really knowing them in the flesh. So it is, after spending five years writing America’s Medicis: The Rockefellers and their Astonishing Cultural Legacy, with the … Continue reading
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Tagged america's medicis, art, arts, david rockefeller, Rockefeller, rockefeller family, rockefellers
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Georges Seurat’s Circus Sideshow at the Met
Georges Seurat was a visionary. He applied primary colors in tiny dots, and ended up with unbelievably beautiful novel textures and shades. His technique was based on the theory of the color wheel and as a reaction to the spontaneous, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art auctions, art collecting, art collection, art exhibits, art history, art institute of chicago, art museums, art sales, arts, circus sideshow, divisionism, fine art, fine arts, french art, georges seurat, impressionism, john quinn, metropolitan museum, metropolitan museum of art, modern art, modernism, moma, museum of modern art, museums, neo-impressionism, pointillism, seurat, the met
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Planned Parenthood and The Marseillaise: Aux Armes, Citoyens!
To arms, citizens, Form your battalions Let’s march, let’s march Let an impure blood Soak our fields This is the refrain of the Marseillaise, forever the battle-song of oppressed humanities. It was composed by Claude Rouget de Lisle in 1792 … Continue reading
2016: Christmas Cheer on Fifth Avenue
It may be a hopeful sign that New York’s prime shopping boulevard is defying the political unrest that is settling on the world. The city’s big stores came up with an enchanting extravaganza of Christmas windows endowing Midtown Manhattan … Continue reading
Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Thank God this painting is in New York,” Sabine Rewald kept repeating as she led a flock of reporters through the magnificent exhibition of Max Beckmann paintings that she had curated for the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art collection, art exhibits, art history, art museums, degenerate art, fine art, german art, german expressionism, german expressionists, german jewish history, germany, max beckmann, met museum, metropolitan museum, metropolitan museum of art, modern art, museum of modern art, nazi germany, paintings
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Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 