Looks like I'm not the only one around with a Christmas gripe against someone at The New York Times. That link in the previous sentence is extraordinary....

In his media column today, "At Media Companies, A Nation of Serfs," David Carr comes down on the side of those who think professional writers shouldn't write for free for The Huffington Post and ought to consider the same before posting on Facebook and Twitter. Perhaps because he has...

The Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute has a new-ish show, "American Woman," exploring the modern woman through dress -- a very original way to look at women, no? But that's not what interests me most here. At the very end of the show, there's a gallery where still images of 200...

When I began researching Rogues' Gallery, my "social" history of the leaders and benefactors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I discovered that although the institution celebrates the history of human creation, the Met's keepers were profoundly anti-historical when it came to their own story. "If we say we won't...

It's been almost eleven months since the Metropolitan Museum named Thomas Campbell, a British tapestries expert, its new director. Since then, he's given only a few interviews, none of them particularly revealing of either his personality (shy but graceful) or his plans for the museum (spend less, update the web...

"If you're so smart, how come you're not rich?"

That's never been said to me, but I've read it more than once in the faces of the rich-and-famous types who populate my journalistic "beat." What follows often proves a different dictum, expressed through a variant of the question first...

On Thursday morning, Charlene Marshall was sobbing, her eyes bloodshot and bright red when she walked into Supreme Court in Manhattan where her husband Anthony is on trial, charged with manipulating his Alzheimer's Disease-stricken mother, the philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor, into changing her will in his favor, plundering her...