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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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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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Henri Matisse, MoMA, America, and the Rockefellers

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

In 1930, when the Museum of Modern Art was not even a year old, Henri Matisse came to America. The main purpose of his voyage was to visit Albert Barnes and to view the future site of the Dance Mural … 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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Diego Rivera and the Rockefellers

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

“Are you going to write about the destruction of the Rivera mural at Rockefeller Center?” people invariably asked, when I told them that I was writing a book about the Rockefellers and their art sponsorships and donations. So I … Continue reading →

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