#33 With a Bullet
Rogues’ Gallery hit #33 on the Book Sense independent bookstore non-fiction bestseller list today.
Where no man has gone before…
A customer review on amazon.com calls Rogues’ Gallery “a gossipy hatchet job on the private lives of several of the museum trustees” and the author “the sort of bottom feeder who can find something sinister in just about anyone or anything.” Some might consider that praise. My feeling? Better a strong reaction than none at […]
Rogues Gallery Live at The Strand
Watch last night’s discussion of Rogues Gallery at The Strand by clicking on my name below:
“Great theater — drama and excitement,” says Met Museum CFO
“Wow,” says Daniel Herrick, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1968 until 1985, and subsequently the CFO and Treasurer of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. “There’s so much more in Rogues’ Gallery than I, even after working there for seventeen years, could possibly have imagined or […]
“Highly entertaining” but banned in Met bookstore — Bloomberg.com
Introducing “Secrets, Phonies Animate Lively Met Museum History,”an interview about Rogues’ Gallery for Bloomberg’s Muse, its executive editor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Manuela Hoelterhoff calls the book “highly entertaining,” and reports something I assumed but didn’t know, that the book “is not for sale in the gift shop of the lofty art house on […]
#1 (with an asterisk)
Rogues’ Gallery, which already hit this spot at Barnes & Noble, is now the best-selling book on art (and #1 in urban sociology, too) on amazon.com, too.
Page Six on Fifth
Today’s Page Six in the New York Post covers the Rogues’ Gallery book party.
Costume Drama
Although she leads with a photo of Richard Avedon-inspired elephants, Lee Rosenbaum, aka the art-blogger culturegrrl, doesn’t mention the elephant in the room, Rogues’ Gallery, in her post today on the Metropolitan Museums’ new Costume Institute show, “The Model as Muse.” But she does second the point already made in the book and in comments […]
#1 (with an asterisk)
Rogues’ Gallery is the bestselling work of art history in the country.
Vanity Fair: Rogues’ Gallery is “explosive”
Vanity Fair’s Society & Style gives Georgette Mosbacher‘s launch party for Rogues Gallery top billing over competing fetes that attracted mere movie stars and Chelsea Clinton in a post on Thursday night’s top parties. “Why?” asks VF. “Because social powerhouses have been awaiting this book with bated breath, and where better to toast it than […]