false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255641220m/3460863.jpg 3460863 4 <B>A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art.</B><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 <I>Artforum</I> 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. 3502133 10 11 2008 Seven Days in the Art World total:338|5:45|4:149|3:114|2:28|1:2| 338 1221 683 109 4 2 false false Mon Aug 11 06:40:50 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 06:40:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 11:07:43 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 18:17:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 06:25:30 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 06:47:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 05:09:58 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 05:25:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 20:11:56 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 20:12:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 15:50:16 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 00:36:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 05:37:54 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 05:41:34 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 03 17:25:01 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 17:25:01 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 17:41:40 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 22:35:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 10:28:51 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 10:40:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 09:23:56 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 09:47:32 -0700 2009
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