Italy Gets Getty Booty Michael Gross The Italian government has concludedan agreementfor the return of 40 antiquities from the Getty museum in Los Angeles, the latest coup in its crusade to recover what it deems Italy’s cultural patrimony. The Metropolitan Museum made a similar deal last year....
Michael Gross This week’s terrific New York Magazineprofileof Balathazar/Pastis/Morandi impresarioKeith McNally–which includes an account of his breakup with his once-upon-a-time partner in London’s Balthazar, the former garmentoRichard Caring, reminded me of my 2015 Departures (R.I.P.)story...
” but it’s been updated with a new Afterword. In the original, “Gross summed up Lauren by saying that the things which made him a success like obsessiveness and control were ‘negative when viewed on the human level,'” the Mail reports. “In the new afterword Gross...