Title: Seven days in the art world
First published: 2008
Description: 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 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.
Subjects: Art, Modern, Marketing em museus, Art, Exhibitions, Concurrentie, Kunstkritiek, Marketing, Bienais de arte, Kunsthandel, Art as an investment, Tentoonstellingen, Leilão de arte, Competitions, Art and society, Modern Art, Crítica de arte, Art criticism, Kunstveilingen, Art auctions, Art, marketing, Art, exhibitions, Art, competitions, Kunstwettbewerb, Kunstausstellung, Kunstwerk, Kunstmesse, General
Time periods: 21st century
LC classification: N8600 .T485 2008