Tom Terrific
David Patrick Columbia remembers Tom Hoving today on New York Social Diary as “an outspoken showman connoisseur [who] had the common touch for those things which brought out the king in all of us.” Having read much of the coverage of Hoving’s life in recent days, it seems that he was best-appreciated by the non-art […]
I, A Contest. I, A Fashion Spread.
Curbed, the essential New York real estate blog, has just launched a holiday contest with signed copies of 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery as the prize. You’ve got to be in it to win it. And 20/20, the eyeglass fashion magazine, has just published an online slide show that includes me in some fancy frames […]
Tom Hoving, RIP
Tom Hoving, the outsized, ebullient, always controversial leader of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who revolutionized museums around the world in the decade from 1966 to 1976, died this morning after a short bout with cancer first diagnosed late this spring. Hoving, who was also a scholar, curator, commissioner of parks in New York City, […]
Rogues’ Library
Talk about an amazing “turn” of events: I’ll be speaking about Rogues’ Gallery for the last time this year at the Midtown Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library at 455 Fifth Avenue on Tuesday December 22nd at 6:30 PM. Who says there’s no Santa Claus?
Not Dunne Yet
The late Dominick Dunne’s touching last novel, the new roman a clef, Too Much Money, revisits characters from his earlier People Like Us, many of them familiar to followers of New York society in the last three decades, but the book is still full of surprises. Page Six has already revealed the biggest — Dunne’s […]
“A definite must-read.”
On my speaking tour of Southern California last month, I met more than a dozen museum directors, trustees and donors, some of whose names would not be out of place on the plaques lining the grand stairs of the Metropolitan Musuem, many of whom had kind words to say about Rogues’ Gallery — a pleasant […]