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Busman’s Holiday

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Suzanne Loebl

Two days before the official beginning of spring 2021, I decided to leave my lockdown quarters in Brooklyn Heights and visit my home away from home: the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I took a taxi and was shocked along the … Continue reading →

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Georges Seurat’s Circus Sideshow at the Met

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Suzanne Loebl

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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Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

“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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Need Cheering Up? Go See Stuart Davis at the Whitney Museum of Art

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

Want to forget Brexit, Trump, and the rest of the long, dark list of summer events that seems to be lengthening by the day? Go to the still sparklingly new Whitney Museum of American Art and immerse yourself in the … Continue reading →

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The Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

Two very different women, the socially striving Arabella Worsham and the retiring Laura Spelman Rockefeller, occupied the lavish Gilded Age dressing room that joined the period rooms in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in … Continue reading →

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Pergamon, and my Belgian History Teacher, Come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

As soon as I entered the Met Museum’s magnificent survey of Hellenistic Art (Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, April 18-June 17, 2016) the voice of Miss Feytmans, who taught at my high school some 75 years … Continue reading →

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Visiting the Musee Rodin in the Wake of World War II

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

For me, the reopening of the Musee Rodin unleashed floods of memories. In April 1946, a month before my nuclear family was to immigrate to the United States, my mother, who was somewhat of a tyrant, surprisingly let me visit … Continue reading →

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Picasso: The Sculptor at Work

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

Picasso is perhaps the best-known artist of the twentieth century. But throughout his career he also remained, in spirit, a genius of a little boy whose next prank was forever unexpected. This fall, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) devoted its … Continue reading →

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Sotheby’s 2015 Impressionist and Modern Art Auction: The Joy of a Making-Believe Billionaire

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

Art from the collections of Jerome H. Stone, a Chicago entrepreneur, Lola Sarnoff, the Samuel Goldwyn family, and Anthony Goldschmidt led off Sotheby’s spring auction. The latter included a Monet looted from Jacob Goldschmidt by the Nazis in 1941. It … Continue reading →

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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

Jacob Lawrence, whose entire epic Migration Series is now on display at MoMA, was wonderfully gifted, hard-working and fortunate. In 1941, Edith Halpert, the owner of the avant-garde Downtown Gallery, went to Harlem to explore the work of then totally ignored … Continue reading →

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