“This book is a museum piece,” says Page Six
Page Six in the New York Post covers my two-day visit to Newport, Rhode Island, today. My next signing and talk will be Labor Day weekend at Bookhampton in East Hampton.
Staycation Time
Sometimes, you don’t need to leave home to travel. My two latest articles for Travel + Leisure prove the point. One looks at Manhattan’s new restaurant row, 58th Street from river to river, featuring food from the ends of the earth. The other, at the long, lush-life history an old favorite that’s been refreshed, the […]
Arty Party People
The Metropolitan Museum’s tight-as-a-tick relationship with Vogue Magazine will be on display next Tuesday when the magazine’s editor, Anna Wintour, and the museum president, Emily Rafferty, host what’s described as an “intimate” luncheon for Vogue’s outgoing party planner Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. Today’s Fashion Week Daily has a guest list that includes (no surprise) Oscar de […]
The Song Remains The Same
Those who forget the past, they say, are condemned to repeat it. So in all the wailing and rending of garments over what the current financial crisis has done to cultural institutions, it is often forgotten that their literal fortunes have waxed and waned before, and typically, the strong, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, […]
Jewels of the Giulia
Last week, I nearly crossed paths with Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic of The New York Times, who went to Rome to visit the Euphronios krater, the Greek vase famously smuggled out of Italy, sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972, and finally returned to Italy thirty-some-odd years later following a lengthy investigation […]
“No-holds-barred,” says the Financial Post
Canada’s Financial Post says Rogues’ Gallery is “stuffed with entertaining – and often embarrassing – detail about the Met’s administrators and donors.”
“A fine topography… Astonishing.” — The Providence Journal
In Sunday’s Providence Journal, Rick Ring, author of “Notes for Bibliophiles,” the official blog of the Providence Library special collections, calls Rogues’ Gallery “a fine topography of the major players” in the story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Excavating the Met’s history in six chapters from 1870 to 2009, Gross reveals the personalities and […]
They listen… they really listen
Fashion Week Daily reports that the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute ball, aka the Party of the Year, aka Ahhh-nna’s Party (so-named after its longtime chairman, Vogue editor Anna Wintour), will attempt to become less commercial next year and the guest list will focus on traditional museum supporters rather than US-magazine style celebs. Which means, I […]
Roar, Lion
Was the two-month absence of Rogues’ Gallery from the New York Public Library an accident — or a plot? I don’t know, but something’s changed since the New York Observer’s Reid Pillifant first asked the question two weeks ago. Today, he’s back with a happy update. Whether or not, as the Observer wondered (and still […]
“A blockbuster exhibition of human achievements and flaws.” — NY Times Book Review
Rogues’ Gallery is “a blockbuster exhibition of human achievements and flaws,” Amy Finnerty says in the New York Times Book Review. Finnerty writes at length about the book’s substance and scope as well as its “… pages of Vanity Fair-worthy name-dropping and social-climbing.” Here’s the full review. UPDATE: Finnerty did complain that the book was […]