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Art World Books
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An Object of Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 116,376 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,266 ratings — published 2008
A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.32 — 91,818 ratings — published 2011
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,085 ratings — published 2008
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.91 — 110,173 ratings — published 2023
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,928 ratings — published 2016
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,859 ratings — published 2023
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,062,924 ratings — published 2013
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.77 — 96,185 ratings — published 2012
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,052 ratings — published 2019
We Are Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 57,074 ratings — published 2013
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,717 ratings — published 2009
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,841 ratings — published 2009
Anita de Monte Laughs Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 48,757 ratings — published 2024
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 238,725 ratings — published 2021
The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.92 — 194 ratings — published 2017
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,445,451 ratings — published 2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.59 — 592,455 ratings — published 2018
Art Collecting Today: Market Insights for Everyone Passionate about Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.82 — 111 ratings — published
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,853 ratings — published 1912
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 368,083 ratings — published 2010
The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.83 — 285 ratings — published 2014
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,813 ratings — published 2012
The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 564 ratings — published 2012
Still Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.25 — 33,968 ratings — published 2018
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,333,723 ratings — published 2017
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 445,471 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,930 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 471,520 ratings — published 1950
Maestra (Maestra #1)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 2.85 — 16,395 ratings — published 2016
Shadow Tag (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,804 ratings — published 2010
Playing to the Gallery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,804 ratings — published 2014
Cat's Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,801 ratings — published 1988
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,601 ratings — published 2006
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,758 ratings — published 2009
Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 858 ratings — published 2013
Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,403 ratings — published 2013
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 64,877 ratings — published 2010
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 113,442 ratings — published 1914
My Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 497,250 ratings — published 2025
Flat Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.09 — 1,576 ratings — published 2025
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,888 ratings — published 2025
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 116,973 ratings — published 1995
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,932 ratings — published 2024
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 659 ratings — published 2024
A Year in the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.66 — 201 ratings — published
Great Big Beautiful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 803,192 ratings — published 2025
The Favorites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 260,700 ratings — published 2025
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,569 ratings — published
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.14 — 518 ratings — published 2023
“The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutions....But if this is the case—that we are all in a field where everyone is left-wing values then why are we all agreed that the art world is a giant piece of capitalist shit that is relying on private capital that exploits its workers, that exploits it's artists, that relies on unpaid labor? This to me is living proof that art can't change the work and we need to organize. Artists need to realize how little power we all actually have and how power needs to be built. It doesn't come naturally and isn't a divine gift you get by being an artist. --Kerry Guinan”
― Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
― Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
“I must emphasize, no matter how obvious it sounds, that good curating depends upon a bottomless passion and curiosity for looking and questioning; and the desire to communicate that excitement. - Donna De Salvo”
― Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum
― Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum
