Where’s Your Beef?
In a review almost as long as Rogues’ Gallery itself, Oscar White Muscarella, a longtime curator at and gadfly within the Metropolitan Museum of Art, reports that at a May 12th, 2009 meeting of the Board of Trustees of the MMA, its new director, Thomas Campbell slammed the book as “a sardonic mixture of gossip […]
“A compelling portrait of New York”
“Michael Gross is an acclaimed cultural journalist and an incisive, skilled, gossip-driven chronicler of the fashion and society worlds,” writes Raymond Dowd in the New York Law Journal [subscription-only]. “He is fearlessly able to breach walls of secrecy and to nail down a story where no one wants to talk. As we move through the […]
The Hits Just Keep on Coming
In FYIDC, its insider’s guide, Washington Life magazine called Rogues’ Gallery “the ultimate insider’s look at the colorful characters who populate New York’s Metropolitan Museum.”
Dishing in Dallas
Today’s Dallas Morning News tips its hat at Rogues’ Gallery. The paper’s entertainment and society columnist Alan Peppard calls it “a dishy read about behind-the-scenes social and civic maneuvering of the moguls who shaped the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” I’ll be speaking next Thursday, September 17th, at a literary luncheon at the Adolphus hotel in […]
“Mighty enticing”
In its Labor Day issue, Hamptons Magazine calls Rogues Gallery “a fascinating look into the inner workings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” The story isn’t online, so grab a copy while you can.
If a review fell in the forest…
It was only last week that I heard that Art & Antiques magazine had reviewed Rogues’ Gallery back in July and, I was further informed, called its author (i.e. me) boorish and scornful. It took a day to find a copy, but when I did I read, to my great surprise, “Hucksters and Housekeepers,” one […]
“Juicy and substantial”
Bill Benzon has penned a great essay on Rogues’ Gallery for The Valve, the literary web site. He calls it “a tell-much extravaganza… about the rich and powerful folks behind New York City’s Met, one of the finest art museums in the world. Stick this Rogues’ Gallery in your weekend bag or on your night […]
Rogues’ Gallery Hits the Bestseller List
Rogues’ Gallery has just debuted at #7 on the Non-Fiction Bestseller List of Book Soup in West Hollywood, California, one of the best independent book stores in America. Thanks to the Angelenos who put it there! And thanks, too, to the book-loving newspapers across the country that print its influential list.
“Incredible investigative reporting and pretty damning stuff.”
“With every page, Gross exposes intimate details… to illustrate the fascinating history of this venerable institution,” Silvana Paternostro writes in “The Making of the Met” in the new issue of Poder, the leading Latino magazine in the Americas. “He tells the stories of the men and women who form the inner sanctum of wealth and […]
In re: Dominick Dunne
UPDATE: Dominick Dunne died peacefully Wednesday at his home here in New York after a two year battle with bladder cancer, reports David Patrick Columbia‘s New York Social Diary. “F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that ‘there are no Second Acts in American lives.’” DPC says. “Dominick Dunne, who most assuredly was a admirer of Fitzgerald’s […]