Get Thee to Curbed.com
Gripepad will be on hiatus this week as I guest-edit ny.curbed.com alongside the awesome Sara Polsky in Lockhart Steele‘s apparent attempt to divert attention from the departure of longtime curbed blog-God Joey Arak. Please send tips and good wishes that-a-way.
Museum History Mystery: the Metropolitan and the Whitney
Yesterday’s announcement that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is likely to take over the Marcel Breuer-designed Brutalist building that now houses the Whitney Museum of American Art was expected. What it left out, however, was unexpected. The Soviet-style desire of the Met’s administration (and their friends and toadies in the New York cultural elite) to […]
Wintour’s Springboard is Brodsky’s Board
Anna Wintour (that’s not her above) got her reward for tireless service to Si New — , oops, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday when she was promoted from powerless non-voting honorary trustee of the museum to only slightly less powerless “elective” trustee. On the same day, James Houghton, the museum’s […]
Arts Smart
My new Crains column tackles arts philanthropy
For the record…
Courtney Sale Ross is going for the record books, listing her double duplex at 740 Park for $60 million. You go, girl! Check it out in today’s Wall Street Journal.
It’s a Dirty Job But Someone Has to Do It
This gripepad and pen are familiar with the ins and outs of telling the emperor he’s starkers. But at a certain point, it can get repetitive, so I’ve mostly spared the Metropolitan Museum in recent months. I almost felt bad when Obama-Gets-Osama kept Anna Wintour‘s fashion promo party from dominating the news cycle this week. […]
Trump For President
Votez pour Le Donald, I say in this week’s Crain’s New York Business. Read it before you react!
Good Housekeeping
I’ve been neglecting everything on this site aside from the blog the last two years as I reported and wrote Unreal Estate. Now that the book’s done, I’ve finally updated the links to my recent published articles, including all my columns for Crain’s New York Business and stories for Travel & Leisure, so anyone who […]
Turn Up Your Radio
Or just hit play. Today, I woke up craving Van Morrison.
A Taste of Lennon
I don’t know why but I woke up today with a craving for Instant Karma.