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Early Childhood Education, Dollars, and Sense

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

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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The Armory Show at a Hundred

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

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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Lunch at Le Bernardin

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

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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Wishing Upon A Star

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

The eve before his birthday, my son David and I would imagine him flying to a magic star where every wish of a four, five, or six-year-old…would be granted. As appropriate the star would be stocked with favorite foods, limitless … Continue reading →

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The Scream: Or On Almost Owning A Munch

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

Currently the Museum of Modern Art in New York is exhibiting a version of The Scream by Edvard Munch. Leon Black, a member of the Board of Trustees, who paid $119.9 million for it at a Sotheby’s. The price is … Continue reading →

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Inventing Abstraction: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

Fittingly, New York’s Museum of Modern Art opened the centennial exhibition of Inventing Abstraction before the end of 2012. It is a very handsome show, full of varied and vigorous pictures celebrating a new medium that since has swept the … Continue reading →

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Zabar’s and Food Memories

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

The other day I stopped at Zabar’s. There was a time that I went there weekly though I lived seventy-five blocks further uptown. This was before the food revolution, and the store was the closest one to fill some of … Continue reading →

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Neatness: A Sign of Godliness or Compulsion?

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

Occasionally, when I was a child, I’d come home from school and find my clothes, books, crayons, drawing pad, and a stuffed animal or two, all piled high in the hall. My mother had had enough of my mess and … Continue reading →

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The Rockefeller Women

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

Since 1908, the year Nelson Rockefeller was born here on Mount Desert Island, part of the family has summered here ever since. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was one of the three fathers of Acadia National Park. The Rockefeller women have … Continue reading →

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Trash!

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

One of the rituals of my summer is to go to the local dump, more elegantly called the “recycling center.” Mount Desert, my township here in Maine, includes the residences of Martha Stewart, many Rockefellers, Zbigniew Brzezinski (security advisor to … Continue reading →

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