Model Movie
Page Six announced this morning that Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, my 1995 book on the fashion modeling industry, has been optioned by KDX Productions to be made into a ten-part documentary. Given that today’s papers also bring news that the film of my pal Steven M.L. Aronson‘s fantastic book on a society […]
Fifth Avenue Freezeout
Galleycat has some fun with the fact that the powers-that-be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art don’t like the book I’m writing —and don’t need to read it to know that! The book blog has issued a call for photos of the building (which the Met doesn’t want me to have) and they’re already arriving. […]
Sheik Philippe
Philippe de Montebello is going to work for New York University, where, according to Carol Vogel in todays’ Times, he will lecture on the history of collecting and connoisseurship and the evolution of museums, and serve as a special advisor — whatever that means — to NYU’s new Abu Dhabi campus. Curiously, when the Louvre […]
First (Amendment) on Fifth
Liz Smith has it first: the title of my next book on the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be Rogues’ Gallery. La Liz gets a few more things right, too. The Met is “remarkable, incredibly valuable and super-important,” and so is its incredibly rich story, which is why I chose to write it. The Met […]
The Birth of St. Barth
My slightly unserious timeline of the history of St. Barthelemy, my favorite island, is in the new June 2008 issue of Travel + Leisure.