Seven Days in the Art WorldA fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture. |
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... , anarchic people to make me happy.” Finally, it must be said that when the talk dies down and the crowds go home, it's bliss to stand in a room full of good art. SEVEN DAYS IN THE Art World 1 The Auction I INTRODUCTION xix.
... , anarchic people to make me happy.” Finally, it must be said that when the talk dies down and the crowds go home, it's bliss to stand in a room full of good art. SEVEN DAYS IN THE Art World 1 The Auction It's INTRODUCTION xix.
... stands on end , thick with gel , neither in nor strictly out of fashion but in its own universe of style . Ségalot ... standing adviser to the self - made billionaire François Pinault , who , as both the owner of Christie's and a lead ...
... stands up , pays the bill , and says , " It has been my pleasure . " I sit , finishing my water and collecting my thoughts . Ségalot is infectiously zealous . We had been sitting for almost an hour and he had spoken with absolute ...
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