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Gallery Girl by Wendy Holden

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I found this send up of the conceptual art scene delicious from beginning to end. There couldn't be a more deserving crowd for the treatment served up by Holden. Disclaimer - I have an interest in art so I was more focused on that than on the characters' personal stories. But from the clueless hedge-fund customers to the shallow, social climbing gallery owners and the self-important "artists" making "profound statements" with frozen pee and rotting Chinese take-out, I couldn't stop laughing. It's said that truth is stranger than fiction, and this is certainly the case with the "contemporary art scene." But when you take the stranger-than-fiction truth and turn it into fiction, you've got a double scoop of fun.



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