I Love LA
And LA loves Rogues’ Gallery. Or, at the very least, the staff at Book Soup does.
Museum on Museum
The Columbus Museum of Art’s official blog has weighed in on Rogues’ Gallery. “It’s fun, gossipy, fascinating reading; the perfect museum lover’s book for summer at the beach or at home,” says Dominique H. Vasseur, the CMA’s Curator of European Art.
The audacity!
This weekend, Rogues’ Gallery got its best review yet — and its worst — each from an art critic. Writing in The Buffalo News, Jean Reeves Barre called Rogues’ “audacious” and “intriguing,” “factual” and “often irreverent,” “a honeypot of gossip” filled with “detail [that] boggles the mind.” Christopher Knight of The Los Angeles Times wasn’t […]
Do the Harrimans know?
Looks like the Metropolitan Museum of Art is doing more than shrinking staff and closing stores to make up for its recession-ravaged endowment. Doyle New York, the auctioneers, just announced a September 14th sale of Asian Art from the museum. No online catalogue is yet available, but the email flyer features a model of a […]
A Rave for Rogues’
Artnet.com’s Brook Mason just posted a rave review of Rogues’ Gallery, calling it “a juicy, deliciously detailed history of the nation’s largest museum and the oversized egos of those who run it… As a history of culture in this city, it’s spot on.”
“An invaluable addition to the modern history of the art world.”
“This slightly irreverent history of one of the world’s great art museums, New York’s Metropolitan, is an intriguing look behind the scenes,” says today’s Calgary Sun. Rogues’ Gallery is “an invaluable addition to the modern history of the art world.”
The fine art of back-scratching
It’s been almost eleven months since the Metropolitan Museum named Thomas Campbell, a British tapestries expert, its new director. Since then, he’s given only a few interviews, none of them particularly revealing of either his personality (shy but graceful) or his plans for the museum (spend less, update the web site). But his — or […]
“Tantalizing… irresistable… one of the year’s most entertaining books,” says The Daily Beast
Nancy Bass Wyden, third-generation owner of one of New York’s finest book stores, The Strand, has posted her summer reading list on The Daily Beast, and Rogues’ Gallery tops the list. “Who doesn’t love the Met, and who wouldn’t want to read tantalizing gossip about the upper echelon of social climbers, philanthropists, and curators who […]
“Endlessly entertaining,” says Newport Seen
“Will New York ever be the same?” asks Linda Phillips on her Newport Seen web site, covering my talk about Rogues’ Gallery last week at the Redwood Athanaeum, the oldest continuously operating private library in America. “On hand were Jae French… Kimberly Skeen Jones, Nannette and George Herrick, Douglas Riggs, President of the Board, and […]
“Don’t miss Rogues’ Gallery,” says The Atlantan
This one’s a peach. “If you thought former J. Paul Getty Museum curator Marion True’s illegally procured antiquities trial was a cause célèbre, don’t miss Rogue’s Gallery,” says The Atlantan‘s Felicia Feaster. “Michael Gross’s 483-page behemoth (on the heels of his equally dishy 740 Park) recounts the prestigious museum’s often-unsavory elitism… early acquisition practices others […]