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Public Parks, Private Gardens: The Met Celebrates Spring

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Suzanne Loebl

Given the nor’easter that dumped snow all over Central Park and our constantly dreary politics, it is wonderful that the Met is putting on a show that overflows with sunshine and outdoor delights. The exhibit is on the ground floor … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2017: A Walk Along Fifth Avenue

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Suzanne Loebl

The world is a mess. Washington is concocting a disastrous tax plan, we’re confronting the reality of widespread horrible sexual behavior by men, North Korea is rattling long-range nuclear missiles, and Trump meddles in Middle Eastern politics. Nevertheless, New York’s … Continue reading →

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2016: Christmas Cheer on Fifth Avenue

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

  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 →

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Refugee, But Not Forever

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

The other evening, after a satisfying dinner, I was lazily surfing the net when I came across a photo of a beach filled with Syrian refugees running across the sand, trying to climb aboard a rickety ship. Suddenly my heart … 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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Christmas Windows in New York Never Disappoint

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

To momentarily forget the massacres in Paris and San Bernardino, the insane arsenals amassed by my fellow citizens, the irresponsible rhetoric of those who spend billions in their bid to become the president of the U.S.A…. I took myself to … 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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A Spring Ritual: Central Park’s Conservatory Garden

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

In 1853, when it was in the planning stage, New York’s Central Park was to provide its mostly impoverished citizenry with an open country experience. It took Vaux and Olmsted twenty years to complete their assignment brilliantly. They carefully created … Continue reading →

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