num_pages: 395
description: What makes a painting worth hundreds of thousands of dollars? Why has art become a major investment for the very rich? Why do powerful men scheme and connive to get onto the boards of famous museums? How do galleries manipulate artists and profit thereby? This book gives the answers -- and much, much more. It is an inside account of the grip money and power have on the art world. It probes the web of scandal, in-fighting, lawsuits, endless scheming and politics that writhe beneath the art world's elegant surface. It shows how famous names such as Paley, Rockefeller, Hoving, Hirshhorn, and Castelli; formidable museums such as the Smithsonian and New York's Metropolitan; and celebrated galleries and critics are all drawn in; and in an ironic and entertaining manner, it describes the costly game of wits they play with one another, using the artist as their pawn.
language: English
title: The Art Crowd
titlecomplete: The Art Crowd
ratings_count: 1
publisher: David McKay Company