Roar, Lion
Was the two-month absence of Rogues’ Gallery from the New York Public Library an accident — or a plot? I don’t know, but something’s changed since the New York Observer’s Reid Pillifant first asked the question two weeks ago. Today, he’s back with a happy update. Whether or not, as the Observer wondered (and still […]
“A blockbuster exhibition of human achievements and flaws.” — NY Times Book Review
Rogues’ Gallery is “a blockbuster exhibition of human achievements and flaws,” Amy Finnerty says in the New York Times Book Review. Finnerty writes at length about the book’s substance and scope as well as its “… pages of Vanity Fair-worthy name-dropping and social-climbing.” Here’s the full review. UPDATE: Finnerty did complain that the book was […]
“The seamy side of philanthropy,” says NY1’s George Whipple
NY1’s Whipple’s World, featuring George Whipple, dropped in on last week’s book signing at Kieselstein-Cord on Madison Avenue and today, brought back this televised report on the party and the book that inspired it.
The More Things Change
The Metropolitan Museum of Art cut its staff by 357 bodies yesterday, buying out some employees and laying off others in response to the worldwide financial markets. As chronicled in Rogues’ Gallery, this sort of retrenchment is nothing new to the Metropolitan. In the past, though, cutbacks involving human beings have alternated with shutdowns of […]
MGTV: “A vivid view into the murky world of the super-rich”
Obsessed with Samantha Ettus has just posted an interview with me about Rogues’ Gallery and much more. “The more impenetrable the subject, the more Michael Gross, magazine journalist and author of 10 books including the bestsellers Model and 740 Park, lives, breathes and relentlessly pursues it,” Ettus says. “His most recent “Tom Wolfe-esque” work of […]
Vox Populi, Pt. 2: “A helluva read!”
“Marched into local bookstore and plunked $30 down for Rogues Gallery, writes a reader of David Patrick Columbia‘s New York Social Diary. “COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN ALL WEEKEND !!!!! What a helluva read! Even if you didn’t care one whit about museums, he tells such an exciting, compelling, downright astonishing story that the first […]
Deep Six
The renegade art critic Charlie Finch and I had a brief (UPDATE: apparently I need to say private) exchange of e-mails late last week that ended up on Page Six in the Post today (Sarcastic Update: somehow [thanks, Charlie]). As Rogues’ Gallery’s parent, I’m glad it’s gotten some Fathers’ Day attention. But one of these […]
Vacation, gotta get away…
Sometimes you need to get away from the day to day. Like today. Let’s go to the Cote Fleurie instead, inspired by my latest in Travel + Leisure, a story about a place “defined by what it lacks.”
Lion Ize
Two months after he first discovered its absence and two days after the New York Observer found that Rogues’ Gallery still couldn’t be checked out of from the New York Public Library, the literary agent Richard Curtis (who is not my agent), reminds visitors to his ereads blog that it still can’t be checked out […]
“Fascinating… insightful… marvelously readable,” says Met Museum’s chief exhibition designer
Though fearful current employees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art can only express themselves sotto voce about Rogues’ Gallery, ex-executives are not so willing to be gagged. “The book is completely fascinating; lucidly and engagingly written,” says Stuart Silver, for many years the museum’s chief exhibition designer. “Your notion that the history of the Met […]