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Author Archives: Suzanne Loebl
In 1970 or so my husband and I went to B. Altman, the venerable Fifth Avenue department store, to view remarkably inexpensive sculptures assembled from old farm implements designed by William Heise, a sculptor from Vermont. It was rather early on … Continue reading
A New York City Snowstorm: Pleasure and Climate Change
On January 2, 2014, at about 10 PM, I took Viva, my new miniature poodle, for her evening walk. Nobody else was about. The street, the lampposts, the houses and even the uncollected garbage were frosted by the season’s first … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged brooklyn, climate change, de blasio, environmentalism, haiyan, hurricane sandy, janus, mayor de blasio, new york city, nyc snowstorms, sandy, snow, snowstorms, typhoon haiyan, viva, winter storm janus
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Kandinsky and His Kaleidoscope of Colors
One of the pictures that decorated my bedroom way back in Hanover, Germany, was a concentric blue and black circle accompanied by triangles, squares, and straight and wiggly lines that look like the mast of a sailboat. Much later I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1913 armory show, bauhaus, blaue reiter, blue rider group, composition v, franz marc, german expressionism, great blue horses, jewish museum, kandinsky, marc chagall, modern art, neue galerie, new york city, nyc museums, the armory show, vasily kandinsky, walker art center
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Aladdin’s Cave
If you love jewelry—and many of us do—hurry to the Metropolitan Museum and visit Jewels by JAR. For a short hour you’ll escape the real and virtual miseries of the world and reside in a wonderland of colors, glitter, larger-than-life … Continue reading
Posted in Art review
Tagged art, cartier, fabergé, jar, jewelry, jewels by jar, joel a rosenthal, lalique, metropolitan museum of art, new york city, nyc museums, paris, tiffany, walters art museum
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Viva
My apologies for having neglected my Branching: Thoughts of an Ever Curious Author readership during the past five months. There were many good and bad reasons: reconstruction of my Brooklyn apartment, a new book idea that did not yet gel, … Continue reading
Early Childhood Education, Dollars, and Sense
I am delighted that the folks in Washington are thinking of educating very young children. I anticipate pilot programs, multi-million dollar projects, and oodles of red tape, followed by reports on hard-to-quantify improvements. Do we really need all that to teach … Continue reading
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Tagged books, children, e-books, e-readers, early childhood, early childhood education, ebooks, education, free online books, grandchildren, grandparents, homeschooling, kindle, nook, obama, obama education policy, oma sally, online books, parenting, parents, picture books, publishing, raising children, reading online, reading with the family, tablet, young children, young readers
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Sargent at the Brooklyn Museum
Need cheering up in this season of abysmal news, when even the weather can no longer be taken for granted and Spring can’t make up its mind whether to be here or not? Sunshine prevails in the stunning 93 John … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, brooklyn museum, carrara, edward boit, erica e. hirshler, erica hirshler, fine art, fine arts, florence, john singer sargent, massachusetts museum of art, mfa, north africa, sargent, teresa a. cabone, teresa cabone, the alps, the carrara quarries, the daughters of edward boit, the museum of fine arts houston, the triumph of religion, venice, watercolor, watercolors, watercolour, watercolours
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The Armory Show at a Hundred
If there was one past event that I am sorry to have missed, it is the International Exposition of Modern Art, now known as the Armory Show, which ran from February 17 until March 15 1913. My regret is that … Continue reading
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Tagged 1913, american art, art at the turn of the century, Arthur Davies, Brancusi, braque, degas, derain, duchamp, edvard munch, gauguin, international exposition of modern art, JAM Whistler, Lehmbruck, Lillie Bliss, manet, matisse, modern art, moma, Munch, nude descending the stairs, picasso, renoir, Rockefeller, rude descending the stairs, seurat, the armory, the armory show, the Museum of Modern Art, toulouse-lautrec, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, WWI
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Lunch at Le Bernardin
In 1986 when siblings Gilbert and Maguy le Coze arrived from France and opened a seafood restaurant in midtown Manhattan I rejoiced, especially after it became the talk of the town. Eight years later chef Gilbert died of a heart … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary lunch, Eric Ripert, fish, Gilbert le Coze, le bernardin, lunch, Maguy le Coze, new york, restaurants, rillette de saumon, scallops, seafood
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Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 