Hi Ate Us
Gripepad will be otherwise occupied for a bit. See you all after the 4th of July.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough
In my latest column in Crain’s New York Business, I ask, why not a Madame Mayor?
Gleb Derujinsky, R.I.P.
The great fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky, 86, and his wife Wallis, 72, died in a car crash yesterday near their home in Durango, Colorado. Last June, I published a retrospective Derujinsky’s work in the penultimate issue I edited of Bergdorf Goodman Magazine. View it here. [large pdf alert]
Alec Baldwin: the Un-Weiner?
Gawker reports rumors today that Alec Baldwin may run for mayor, and details some of his past flirtations with the idea of public office. His first was actually in 1997, and I covered the aborted candidacy of the future 30 Rockstar for New York Magazine. Jump to Page 38 to read “The Candidate.”
Putting My Two Cents in on the Met’s New $25 Entry Fee
Last week, the New York press predictably annnounced the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s abrupt 25% bump of its “suggested” admission price to $25 (that’s the old price displayed above) without much historical context or critical commentary. Only Louise Blouin‘s feisty artinfo.com hinted that to some, this might spell heartbreak or outrage. This morning, Judith H. […]
Marc My Words
There’s going to be an outbreak of backscratch fever at the CFDA Awards tomorrow night. Read all about it in Crain’s New York Business. Tomorrow’s column, today.
Great Pop For Now, People
Big Star performs “The Ballad of El Goodo” in Missouri in 1993. Goodo.
Book ’em, Danno
In tomorrow’s Crain’s New York Business, I wonder if books have a future (hoping mine will be part of it).
The Curbed Collection
In case you missed them (and care), here’s a link to a library of my Curbed.com posts this week. Gripepad is now back in session.
Bye-Bye Met, Hello Happiness
Judith Dobrzynski‘s Real Clear Arts blog breaks the news that chairman of the department of European Art and Sculpture Ian Wardropper, who lost the top spot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to his own underling, Tom Campbell, is decamping for the Frick Collection, where he, too, will be a museum director. Congratulations!