Philippe de Montebello, Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art

An elegant voice sounds often in visitors’ ears as they wander through the many rooms of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, past its many treasures. That voice carries the visitor forward, expands on the wonders of the museum’s collection; a painting’s provenance, a sculpture’s setting, the relation of this tapestry to that torso, of this photograph to that print. And if it’s a voice which knows what it’s talking about, then well it should.

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The Art of Influence

First Published in The Gloss Magazine, Ireland, November 2008
 
Scavenged from the cheap seats at last month’s New York fashion week, a grab bag of the influences we’re all meant to be sporting this season: Sci-Fi, Fetish, Deco, the designs of Alexander Girard, The Women (the 1939 original, not the new embarrassment), the late Yves Saint [...]

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Ted Sorensen, Special Counsel to JFK

First Published: The Irish Times, November 1, 2008
In June, 1963, a couple of minutes after his plane landed at Dublin Airport, President John F. Kennedy listened for the sound of the crowd which he knew to be waiting outside. Kennedy listened, and then he listened some more, and then he turned to Ted Sorensen and [...]

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