Those eyes! Those lips!
One of my favorite profile subjects, the eternally boyish, though now-retired, fashion designer Calvin Klein, may not be working but seems to have had some boyish-making work done, says Cityfile.
Bad Times
In its latest genuflection before the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Arts section of The New York Times has ignored the newspaper’s history as well as the museum’s. In today’s lead article on repairs to damaged art, reporter Randy Kennedy writes that such restorations are conducted in “a kind of seclusion unusual for the museum.” […]
Who’s Next?
Last night, I attended a Fifth Avenue book club that had read Rogues’ Gallery, and I was asked about the future leadership of the Metropolitan Museum. A good question. Jamie Houghton, the museum’s chairman, shed his second most important title last month when the 74-year old confirmed he would step down as the senior fellow […]
Fifth on Fifth
While Gripebox was taking its recent break, Judith Dobrzynski‘s Real Clear Arts blog reported the likelihood that the Metropolitan Museum of Art will rank only fifth among the world’s top museums in total visitors in 2009 with 4.8 million art-lovers passing through its turnstiles compared to 8.5 million at the Louvre in Paris, 5.6 million […]
A Vrai Rogue
Last fall, I spoke at a literary lunch at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, where I was photographed (above) with a flamboyant bottle blonde character who called himself Mordan and ran a magazine and web site called SFR (for Social and Financial Responsibility) International that wrote up the event. This weekend, I learned that the […]
Gotta Getaway
Gripebox is taking a week off.
“Brutally detailed… a very rare read.”
Lisa Feldmann, the editor-in-chief of the German magazine Annabelle, which ran the review of Rogues’ Gallery mentioned below, tells me it reads as follows: “Brutally detailed… A very rare read about the impudent team mentality, the elbow manoeuvres and the impertinence of the American High Society which is at its most impressive when egomania and […]
Some Mercy for Marshall
As predicted here, Anthony Marshall, the ailing 85-year-old only child of Brooke Astor, recently convicted of swindling his mother on her death-bed, isn’t going to prison so soon. An appeals court judge has ruled that the former Metropolitan Museum trustee, ambassador and war hero (and his co-defendent Francis X. Morrisey) can each stay free on […]
Wolff in the Doghouse?
On his blog today, the dyspeptic Michael Wolff calls out the New York Times for omitting his name and book title from an anecdote about Rupert Murdoch that appears to be about him in its recent front pager on Fox News honcho Roger Ailes. A clever one, that Wolff, he manages to get a column […]
Sprechen sie deutsche?
Another German fashion magazine has weighed in on Rogues’ Gallery. And again, I don’t know what it says, though Google Translate makes me pretty sure it’s highly complimentary, indicating that the item calls the book “brutal in its attention to detail when it comes to exposing the bottomless machinations of the cultural temple. Seldom have […]