Art World


An Object of Beauty
Seven Days in the Art World
A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
The Goldfinch
The Art Forger
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
We Are Water
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
The Personal Librarian
Carin Kuoni
Enlighten yourself and you will enlighten the viewer. - Jean-Christophe Ammann
Carin Kuoni, Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum

Sarah Thornton
The contemporary art world is what Tom Wolfe would call a "statusphere." It's structured around nebulous and often contradictory hierarchies of fame, credibility, imagined historical importance, institutional affliction, perceived intelligence, wealth, and attribution such as the size of one's art collection. ...more
Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

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The Art Book Club This group is for artists and art enthusiasts, who want to learn about an artist's journey, art …more
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