Sinatra Revealed In New Exhibit
The Guardian: ‘It’s an irony Frank Sinatra would appreciate: his official career retrospective, a glossy exhibition that takes great pains to minimize his legacy of snap-brim libertinism and dark motivations, opens by accidentally emphasizing his connection to the mafia. To be fair, the large gold lettering “M.O.B. Assn†that greets viewers of “Sinatra: An American Icon” doesn’t reference organized crime; it nods to Marty O’Brien, the boxing pseudonym of Sinatra’s father, and the bar he owned. It’s also an outlier in the otherwise singularly reverential display, a big-band crescendo that only rises steadily in its chaste enthusiasm. On view until 4 September at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the exhibit posits itself as the tentpole of the Sinatra estate’s many centennial festivities this year.’
