What do art museum PR people do in their spare time?
It isn’t every art museum press officer who writes a book good enough to get favorable notice in the NY Times and the New Yorker. (Okay, maybe Lincoln expert Harold Holzer of the Met.)
But Erin Hogan, director of public affairs at the Art Institute of Chicago, scored that coup with her Spiral Jetta (so called because it chronicles her ride to see Smithson‘s “Spiral Jetty” and other earthworks in her Volkswagen Jetta). Tom Vanderbilt in the NY Times Book Review described Erin’s travel memoir as “unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing.” The New Yorker’s unsigned capsule review called it “a soft lens on some hard ideas.” And Kevin Nance in the Chicago Sun-Times found it “smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”
Guess I gotta get a “Jetta.”