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Greenberger with the lot.(Book Review)
The Bright Shapes and the True Names: A Memoir, by Patrick McCaughey; Text, 2003, $32.
PATRICK McCAUGHEY'S memoir has been a local triumph--reviewed with clear affection by peers and colleagues and prominently displayed in bookshops. For example, that recent American import, Borders, has the swashbuckling McCaughey sandwiched between Spike Milligan and Michael Duffy's Man of Honour--John McCarthur.
McCaughey has had a colourful life: peripatetic student, influential art critic, Professor of Visual Arts at Monash University, gallery director three times over--so naturally the brightest shape in the book is himself. And the book is a whirlwind. We are ...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie Ebony, David May 1, 2001 700+ words
...organizing a James Rosenquist traveling retrospective that is scheduled to open at the Guggenheim in fall 2002. Patrick McCaughey, director of the Yale Center for British Art for five years, has announced his resignation, effective June 30...
- Australian art critic critiques his life.('The Bright Shapes and The True...
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books November 6, 2003 700+ words
...M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Australian art critic, Patrick McCaughey, has written a memoir about his life in the art world. McCaughey's 'The Bright Shapes and The True Names' is told with the savagery and sparkle...
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- Magazine article from: Apollo McCaughey, Patrick July 1, 2007 700+ words
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- THE UNREAL MCCAUGHEY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 13, 1995 700+ words
...Elizabeth P. ``Call me Betsy'' McCaughey shows you how many times she's darned...think you might be scratching beneath McCaughey's groomed public image when eating...haven't gotten really intimate with McCaughey (pronounced Mick-COY) until you...
- GOP FINALLY REMEMBERS MCCAUGHEY'S ON THE TICKET, TOO.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) October 29, 1994 700+ words
...bureau ALBANY A few weeks back, Elizabeth McCaughey, the Republican candidate for lieutenant...lingering for the typically tardy Pataki, McCaughey became engaged in a heated exchange with...what am I supposed to talk about?'' McCaughey said, visibly frustrated. The two went...
- BETSY'S REGISTRYWITH HER NUPTIALS NEXT MONTH, LT. GOV. BETSY MCCAUGHEY SHOPS...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 24, 1995 700+ words
...GRONDAHL Staff writer Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey gingerly cradles the Royal Doulton Old...at the $500-a-setting price tag. McCaughey asks a saleswoman, ``It's really...in Stuyvesant Plaza in Guilderland, McCaughey admits her current cookware is burned...