THIS NEWS FROM STISSING HOUSE….
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Route 199 & Route 82 – Pine Plains, NY 12567
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Spring/Summer Newsletter
Oh Happy Spring, almost Summer!
The weather has been glorious and the garden is starting to give forth. We are now open Thursday through Monday for dinner and Saturday and Sunday for lunch.
On Saturday June 13th from 6-8, we are having a discussion and book signing for Michael Gross author of a brand new book Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that made the Metropolitan Museum.
Pat Beard, friend and local author (her latest is Blue Blood and Money: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley) will be interviewing Michael about the book as well as his experience with “libel tourism”. This promises to be a very interesting event, Michael is always entertaining. So come by, have a drink, buy a book, say hello to friends, hear who really made the Met, have a bite. Don’t miss this!
Our special appreciation to Merritt Books who will be handling the book sales.
WHY DON’T THEY WANT YOU TO READ ROGUES’ GALLERY?
“A so-called ‘history’ of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that ignores its mission, and blurs the distinction between gossip and fact, is not only insensitive but highly misleading.” -Official Statement of The Metropolitan Museum
“Riveting and accurate… I learned a lot.” -Tom Hoving, Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1966-1976)
“A prodigious piece of work about those who created and operate this nations’ leading museum of art. It’s simply great theatre.We’re indebted to Mr. Gross.” –Daniel Herrick, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1968-1985)
“Gross demonstrates he knows his stuff. It’s a terrific tale…gossipy, color-rich, fact-packed …What Gross reveals is stuff that more people should know.” -USA Today
“Digs deep … a supremely detailed history.” -Kirkus
“A big tell-all book … zestfully mixes factual reportage with piquantly entertaining anecdotes.” -Booklist
“An insightful, entertaining look at a great institution-with all its flaws and all its greatness.” -Gay Talese
“Dignified…authoritative…fascinating.” -Jesse Kornbluth, Headbutler.com
“A page-turner that unravels like an elite whodunit…fearlessly unearths secrets.” -George Christy, The Beverly Hills Courier
“Fabulous, realistic, well-researched.” -Liz Smith
“By turns funny, outrageous, and disconcerting…Makes public what arguably should have been public knowledge long ago… nearly effortlessly and without disdain.” -artinfo.com
“A primer on how things are done to move the machines that make the metropolis.” -David Patrick Columbia, newyorksocialdiary.com
“Gross is a meticulous storyteller, and Rogues’ Gallery is an entertaining romp.” -frieze
“Any and all facts that I knew of personally, the author gets absolutely right, which makes me trust much else in the book-and there’s a great deal else.. .dense and exhaustively factual … the book is important, and what’s more, splendidly readable.” –Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back the shades of secrecy that have long shrouded the upper class’s cultural and philanthropic ambitions and maneuvers. And, he also paints a revealing portrait of a previously hidden face of American wealth and power.
About the author
Provocative cultural journalist and New York Times best-selling author Michael Gross is currently a Contributing Editor at Travel & Leisure. He has previously held positions at the New York Times, New York Magazine, Radar, George, and Esquire. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Interview, and Town & Country. Visit: www.mgross.com
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