Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals that Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Michael Gross brings us an unprecedented, unauthorized look inside 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 on the world of cultural philanthropy and paints a portrait of the hidden face of American wealth and power so frank and revealing that it provoked what Liz Smith called "a firestorm of controversy."Rogues' Gallery covers the entire history of the Met, focusing on the museum's most colorful characters such as directors Tom Hoving and Philippe de Montebello, the great capitalists J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller Jr., Vogue editors Anna Wintour and Diana Vreeland, the philanthropist Brooke Astor, and mother-daughter trustees Jane Engelhard and Annette de la Renta. A rich, satisfying, alternately hilarious and horrifying look at America's upper class, it proves that "behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime."New York Observer - Reid PillifantProvocative.
Leaders of the Metropolitan Museum xiIntroduction 1Archaeologist 1870-1904 Luigi Palma di Cesnola 21Capitalist 1904-1912 J. Pierpont Morgan 65Philanthropist 1912-1938 John D. Rockefeller Jr 113Catalyst 1938-1960 Robert Moses 171Exhibitionist 1959-1977 Thomas P. F. Hoving 237Arrivistes 1974-2009 Jane Annette Engelhard 373Afterword 487Acknowleldgments 497Notes 501Bibliogoraphy 533Index 539
