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Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.61 — 73,077 ratings — published 2008
An Object of Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 117,965 ratings — published 2010
A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.32 — 93,493 ratings — published 2011
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,181 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 — 123,578 ratings — published 2023
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,581 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 4.00 — 31,350 ratings — published 2023
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,083,281 ratings — published 2013
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.77 — 97,598 ratings — published 2012
Anita de Monte Laughs Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 50,136 ratings — published 2024
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,075 ratings — published 2019
We Are Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 57,819 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 — 6,747 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 3.68 — 7,936 ratings — published 2009
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 248,554 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 — 199 ratings — published 2017
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,611,552 ratings — published 2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.59 — 621,327 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 — 112 ratings — published
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.83 — 95,136 ratings — published 1912
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 381,816 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 — 286 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 3.98 — 15,373 ratings — published 2012
The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 575 ratings — published 2012
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,799 ratings — published
Sirens & Muses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,331 ratings — published 2022
Still Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.25 — 34,136 ratings — published 2018
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 224,427 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,353,399 ratings — published 2017
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 456,017 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 238,578 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 480,727 ratings — published 1950
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 160,156 ratings — published 2008
Maestra (Maestra #1)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 2.85 — 16,538 ratings — published 2016
Shadow Tag (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,896 ratings — published 2010
Playing to the Gallery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,895 ratings — published 2014
Cat's Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,736 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 — 14,699 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 — 53,079 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 — 870 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 — 2,425 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 3.97 — 66,294 ratings — published 2010
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 115,588 ratings — published 1914
My Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 611,362 ratings — published 2025
Flat Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.11 — 2,040 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 3.99 — 4,593 ratings — published 2025
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 118,203 ratings — published 1995
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,404 ratings — published 2024
Wish You Were Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,033 ratings — published 2021
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 701 ratings — published 2024
“Artists are one the final holdouts. Virtually every profession is being driven towards commodification. And corporations, with their profit-driven standardization, building consensus, obfuscation, and aversion to risk, are the ENEMY of art.”
― Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
― Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
“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
