A Vrai Rogue
Last fall, I spoke at a literary lunch at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, where I was photographed (above) with a flamboyant bottle blonde character who called himself Mordan and ran a magazine and web site called SFR (for Social and Financial Responsibility) International that wrote up the event. This weekend, I learned that the […]
Gotta Getaway
Gripebox is taking a week off.
“Brutally detailed… a very rare read.”
Lisa Feldmann, the editor-in-chief of the German magazine Annabelle, which ran the review of Rogues’ Gallery mentioned below, tells me it reads as follows: “Brutally detailed… A very rare read about the impudent team mentality, the elbow manoeuvres and the impertinence of the American High Society which is at its most impressive when egomania and […]
Some Mercy for Marshall
As predicted here, Anthony Marshall, the ailing 85-year-old only child of Brooke Astor, recently convicted of swindling his mother on her death-bed, isn’t going to prison so soon. An appeals court judge has ruled that the former Metropolitan Museum trustee, ambassador and war hero (and his co-defendent Francis X. Morrisey) can each stay free on […]
Wolff in the Doghouse?
On his blog today, the dyspeptic Michael Wolff calls out the New York Times for omitting his name and book title from an anecdote about Rupert Murdoch that appears to be about him in its recent front pager on Fox News honcho Roger Ailes. A clever one, that Wolff, he manages to get a column […]
Sprechen sie deutsche?
Another German fashion magazine has weighed in on Rogues’ Gallery. And again, I don’t know what it says, though Google Translate makes me pretty sure it’s highly complimentary, indicating that the item calls the book “brutal in its attention to detail when it comes to exposing the bottomless machinations of the cultural temple. Seldom have […]
Mohammed’s Radio Silence
In a story titled “Jihad Jitters” today, The New York Post reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is likely to keep artwork that it owns depicting the Islamic Prophet Mohammed locked in its capacious basement when its new Islamic galleries open next year. This would be only the latest of many attempts by the […]
All the News That’s Fit to Paper Over
It took two members of the eminent art journalism squad at the New York Times to write today’s story on the sudden and as-yet-unexplained resignation of Getty museum director Michael Brand. Toward the end, they veer into a brief review of power struggles at museums like the Getty where leadership is split between directors (in […]
Rogues’ Gallery is in Vogue
But alas… it’s in German. Wish I knew what I said.
Reality TV, Russian-Style
RT, the English-language Russian television-and-Internet network, began broadcasting this interview today.