By Caroline
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February 27, 2016
Only yesterday, Tracey Emin's installation "My Bed" was sold at auction for £2.5 million.
Saatchi Gallery.
This book explains such phenomena. It was written for people who read about multi-million dollar prices for contemporary artworks and wonder how such eye-watering figures are reached. Most o... ...more
Saatchi Gallery.
This book explains such phenomena. It was written for people who read about multi-million dollar prices for contemporary artworks and wonder how such eye-watering figures are reached. Most o... ...more
By Meredith
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May 17, 2011
The art business seems to me like this weird cross-section of fashion and property. I read this book for a class that I loved with this really great professor who has the quietest, most monotone voice of any professor I’ve had. It was a lovely class, though. I played Bejeweled 3 through most of t... ...more
By Mikey B.
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August 30, 2016
This is a marvelous book – like “Everything You Always Wanted to Know AboutSex Art but Were Afraid to Ask”. I love looking at art; can’t afford any of it – except at a flea market.
The whole spectacle of the current art world is all here – it’s lavish, sordid, secretive, pretentious... Its’ abou... ...more
This is a marvelous book – like “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About
The whole spectacle of the current art world is all here – it’s lavish, sordid, secretive, pretentious... Its’ abou... ...more
By Mike
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July 19, 2012
Disclaimer, cause I might as well just get it out of the way: If contemporary art makes your blood boil, your hopes for western civilization sputter, or gag reflex engage, this is not the book for you. If you’re in this group, it might be better to just go on your merry way and pretend you never... ...more
By Lance
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July 16, 2017
The most important aspect of the contemporary art market (roughly, art created since 1960 or so) is revealed in the penultimate chapter of The $12 Million Stuffed Shark. It's worth an extended quote, because it helps everything else make some weird kind of sense.
The value of art often has more to......more
By Mark
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April 19, 2017
The middle 50% or so is way too in-depth about the auction process itself rather than the implications that auctions and the auction process have on the art world. Not to mention all the auction talk gets pretty repetitive. I also find it funny (kind of hard to knock the book on this, just wish i... ...more
By Maxym
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January 01, 2017
Насправді чи не єдина книга про економічну історію мистецтва, написана живою та легкою мовою. Автор намагається розкрити усі приховані й невідомі факти про ринок сучасного мистецтва, оперуючи не тільки загальними фактами, але й власним досвідом, адже він неодноразово був присутній при великих аук... ...more
By Nour
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February 01, 2018
I've started reading this book with little information about contemporary art. I only know about the ridiculous installations that cost a fortune and Andy Warhol's easy-to-imitate silkscreens.
This book was a great insight to everything you need to know about contemporary art, not just the econom... ...more
This book was a great insight to everything you need to know about contemporary art, not just the econom... ...more
By Mark B.
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January 02, 2010
I'm going to have to give this one a mixed-review. First of all, I was concerned by some of the mistakes that slipped past the book's editors (i.e. referring to Thomas Hoving as the former director of MOMA (instead of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and references to the Whitney Museum of Modern... ...more