Who Kidnapped Brooke Astor? (NEWS FLASH: She’s Been Found!)
The Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute has a new-ish show, “American Woman,” exploring the modern woman through dress —a very original way to look at women, no? But that’s not what interests me most here. At the very end of the show, there’s a gallery where still images of 200 iconic American women are projected onto […]
I Can’t Get No WSJ-atisfaction
Do squeaky wheel get oiled? When I was at the New York Times I was taught that when someone called demanding a correction, I should always try to talk them out of it first. Today, blogger Scott Rosenberg reports how he recently bullied the Wall Street Journal into fixing a mistake. Which sent FishbowlNY digging […]
The Circle Game: The Whitney and the Metropolitan
Art + Auction’s In the Air column revealed a few days ago that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is talking to the Whitney about taking over its Madison Avenue headquarters when and if the smaller institution moves to MePa. Rogues’ Gallery tells the whole saga of the pas de deux between the two museums, including […]
“Greed is good… material”
Bedford-Katonah Patch’s Jessica Schneidman reports on last week’s CrossTalk benefit in the Katona Museum of Art’s Sculpture Garden which paired a certain author with the actress Patricia Clarkson (above right). “In addition to their keen senses of humor, as one audience member remarked, both guests seemed focused on ‘authenticity’ and the exposition of greed, corporate […]
Patricia Clarkson and Me? Wheee!
Oscar-nominated actresss Patricia Clarkson (above lower right in the SNL short Motherlover) and I appear together and separately tomorrow night at Crosstalk, a benefit for The Katonah Museum of Art and the Katonah Village Library. It starts with a reception at 6:30 PM at the museum at 134 Jay Street in Katonah, NY. “It’s usually […]
The Mob=The Met?
The Art Newspaper, the foremost international source of art news, asks today if the Metropolitan Museum of Art is behaving like the Cosa Nostra. “Omertà and oral history might seem a contradiction in terms, but great museums move in mysterious, some might say Sicilian ways as the writer Michael Gross discovered,” it observes. In writing […]
Pub Day: “An amazing tale of intrigue”
Rogues’ Gallery (the paperback) is in stores today. Tonight at 7:30 PM, I’ll be giving the annual Endowment Fund Lecture for the Rockville Centre Public Library at my alma mater, the South Side Middle School (67 Hillside Avenue). Check the link for further details and to buy tickets. Thursday night, I’m speaking about the book […]
Quote(s) of the day
Today’s Page Six quotes my recent blog post on last week’s so-called Party of the Year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And responding to my Huffington Post post, Oral-Gate (reprinted just below), on the Smithsonian refusing to keep the Metropolitan’s secrets, Jesse Kornbluth at headbutler wonders, “When is the Met going to grow up?” […]
Oral-gate: More Secrets at the Metropolitan Museum
When I began researching Rogues Gallery, my “social” history of the leaders and benefactors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I discovered that although the institution celebrates the history of human creation, the Met’s keepers were profoundly anti-historical when it came to their own story. “If we say we won’t cooperate, will you go away?” […]
I have seen the scat future and it is Nikki Yanofsky
The sweet sixteen sensation live on May 4th 2010 at Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club, Columbus Circle