Vox Populi
My two favorite comments so far on my Huffington Post essay today: dstanley wrote: “I think H.L. Mencken described these people best: ‘Out of this class comes the grotesque fashionable society of our big towns already described. Imagine a horde of peasants incredibly enriched and with almost infinite power thrust into their hands, and you […]
Down the rabbit-hole?
“People [are] wondering why the New York media don’t have much of a line, even a hostile one, on [Rogues’ Gallery] yet,” Ron Hogan observes on Galleycat this morning after reading through the online coverage of the book’s off-line reception in its first few days on sale. “Is Michael Gross really the victim of a […]
The truth hurts (… their feelings)
The trustees and administrators of the Metropolitan Musem of Art have issued their review of Rogues’ Gallery. “A so-called ‘history’ of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that ignores its mission, and blurs the distinction between gossip and fact, is not only insensitive but highly misleading,” museum PR man Harold Holzer tells the New York Observer’s […]
A “great book,” says Forbes.com. “Important and splendidly readable.”
Melik Kaylan of Forbes.com, a long-time observer of culture and museums, reviews Rogues’ Gallery — and some of the controversies surrounding it — today. He writes, “Any and all facts that I knew of personally, the author gets absolutely right, which makes me trust much else in the book — and there’s a great deal […]
Freedom to Suppress: The Empire Strikes Back vs. Rogues’ Gallery
Jesse Kornbluth, writing for Headbutler, reveals the full story of the campaign against Rogues’ Gallery, and has this to say about it: “George Orwell wrote something to the effect: When I see a policeman beating a worker, I don’t have to wonder whose side I’m on. That’s how I feel here. A rich woman has […]
“Yummy!” says The Daily News
George Rush and Joanna Molloy have once again caught the rest of the town snoozing. They call Rogues’ Gallery “yummy” in today’s Daily News while hinting about a legal attack on the book. There’s a review in today’s News, too. “The nut of Gross’ story is the power and influence wielded behind the scenes by […]
A review worth reading: “Skulduggery in the sculpture gallery, intrigue among the antiquities… “
Readers of Rogues’ Gallery are filling the (possibly not-so) curious silence to date of mainsteam media book reviewers concerning Rogues’ Gallery. An S. McGee, amazon-certified to be using a real name, has penned a thoughtful and not uncritical view of the book that I very much like despite its quarrels with me. Calling it a […]
What the… ?
Both the bad review referred to below and Tom Hoving‘s response have disappeared from amazon.com. Should I take down the posts? Remove the dead links? Continue to shelter the fellow who called me a bottom feeder? Decisions, decisions…
Hoving into view
Tom Hoving, the influential former director of the Metropolitan Museum, has waded into the sometimes muddy puddle of the amazon customer reviews of Rogues’ Gallery, responding to the reviewer who called me a “bottom feeder” and doesn’t like Hoving much, either. Play nice, kids!
Cone of Silence
Cityfile wonders about the coverage, or rather, some curious gaps in it, of Rogues’ Gallery in the mainstream press.