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The updated paperback edition of Rogues’ Gallery will be published on May 11th. But there will be a sneak preview on May 5th, when PowerHouse Arena hosts the paperback launch party from 7 to 9 PM. Michael M. Thomas, the author, acerbic journalist and former curator of the Metropolitan Museum, will match wits with Michael […]
“The heaven that leads men to hell”
In a provocative post on his literary web site, The Valve, William Benzon compares Shakespeare’s King Lear to the tragedy of Brooke Astor and her son, Anthony Marshall, both former trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art who experienced what can be gently termed image issues in old age. “In the end Anthony Marshall was […]
Will wonders never cease?
Eleven months into the life of a book, surprises are usually hard to find. But Rogues’ Gallery earned two this week. One of New York’s finest book stores, Rizzoli on 57th Street, has put it in the front window (above, lower left) for the first time, and the Albright Memorial Library serving Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, […]
Tom Terrific (and his era) Remembered
No snark today. I’m just back from Tom Hoving’s memorial at the Temple of Dendur and it was a touching and happy event from the moment his daughter Trea Hoving (who organized the whole thing with her mother Nancy Hoving) stepped to a podium in front of one of those marvelous sprays of flowers (donated […]
Lazard, Oh Frere (i.e. Oh, Brother)!
Justin Force Lazard has been arrested and as of last Saturday was being held at Riker’s Island pending extradition to California. The son of ABC foreign correspondent Sidney Lazard and allegedly a descendant of the founder of the Lazard Frères investment bank, the former actor and Calvin Klein model failed to show up for his […]
“We’re not in Google anymore, Toto.”
Google has changed its name. Happy April Fools Day.
“All the news that important people let us print.”
An item worth reading on The Wire at businessinsider.com: “We don’t mean to be overly critical here, but we get tired of holier-than-thou mainstream media bellyaching about how only mainstream media can be trusted — when so much of the mainstream media game is granting control over coverage in exchange for access. Which certainly seems […]
In the matter of looting
Looting Matters, a blog about archaeology and ethics by the distinguished scholar David Gill of Swansea University, name-checks Rogues’ Gallery today in a post about the famously looted Morgantina Silver, returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008 and currently on display at the Palazzo Massimo of the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome […]
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Today’s local community newspaper quotes my 1997 profile of Patrick McCarthy, outgoing editorial director of W and WWD. “Bite the hand that feeds you,” he told me. “Never stop biting it. And you know what? It will feed you more.” Protege of the legendary editor-publisher John Fairchild, McCarthy was famous for following that dictum, but […]
Guts & Glory
The Fairfield Museum and History Center has a lot of nerve. Rogues Gallery will be the featured book tonight at its History Book Club. Join the discussion at 7 PM at 370 Beach Road, Fairfield, CT.