Rogue's Gallery Peeks Into The Secretive World Of The Met

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
May 10th 2009 at 10:01AM

Author Michael Gross, who famously dished the goings-on at one of New York City's most elite residential buildings, 740 Park, has a new target, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rogues' Gallery represents the end result of three years of research and into the history and leadership of the Met telling the ins and outs of the collections and the people involved.

Gross went to great lengths to reveal the story of America's greatest art museum. He tells ArtInfo that he had people calling him a "sleeze" and yelling at him on phone calls for prying into the history of the museum. This is because the story of the museum is also the story of the rich and influential people who created and run the institution. The book probes the fact that the Met is for the benefit of the public and yet is run in a rather private way. It is certainly an interesting time for the Met with a new younger curator,Thomas Campbell, in place but the same old guard still staffing the board of trustees. This book is going on my summer reading list.

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