James Fuentes presents two iconic Alphabet Paintings by New York artist Al Held (1928–2005), marking a historic return to the former Met Breuer building more than 50 years after their inclusion in the artist’s Whitney Museum retrospective in 1974. Acclaimed for his monumental geometric paintings, Held occupies a pivotal position in postwar art, achieving emotional intensity through rigorous geometric clarity amid the city’s contending currents of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism at the…