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Art World Books
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Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,647 ratings — published 2008
An Object of Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 117,241 ratings — published 2010
A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.32 — 92,746 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 — 6,129 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 — 117,241 ratings — published 2023
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,421 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 — 30,127 ratings — published 2023
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,073,330 ratings — published 2013
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.77 — 96,854 ratings — published 2012
Anita de Monte Laughs Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 49,504 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 — 1,065 ratings — published 2019
We Are Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 57,478 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 — 6,731 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 — 7,887 ratings — published 2009
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 243,581 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 — 198 ratings — published 2017
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,529,445 ratings — published 2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.59 — 606,189 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 — 94,345 ratings — published 1912
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 374,516 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 — 284 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 — 15,065 ratings — published 2012
The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 570 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 — 1,690 ratings — published
Sirens & Muses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,947 ratings — published 2022
Still Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.25 — 34,047 ratings — published 2018
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,343,431 ratings — published 2017
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 450,747 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 237,593 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 476,173 ratings — published 1950
Maestra (Maestra #1)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 2.85 — 16,461 ratings — published 2016
Shadow Tag (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,859 ratings — published 2010
Playing to the Gallery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,845 ratings — published 2014
Cat's Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,288 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 — 14,618 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 — 52,915 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 — 860 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 — 2,414 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 — 65,610 ratings — published 2010
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 114,381 ratings — published 1914
My Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.32 — 559,053 ratings — published 2025
Flat Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.10 — 1,823 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 — 4,269 ratings — published 2025
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 117,660 ratings — published 1995
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,219 ratings — published 2024
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 674 ratings — published 2024
A Year in the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.67 — 207 ratings — published
Great Big Beautiful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 846,713 ratings — published 2025
The Favorites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 274,642 ratings — published 2025
“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.”
― Seven Days in the Art World
― Seven Days in the Art World
“We tend to mix genders when we arrange ourselves around a table for meetings. A sort of accommodation is made by the men for the women: they make space for us. they are ever-so-slightly polite, we are ever-so-slightly grateful. When we stand up at the end of a meeting, we all give ourselves a metaphorical shake that is only partly the relief of having concluded our business: we are all released from the effort of fitting ourselves together.
When men speak in these meetings, women relax; when women speak, men grow tense. I have the impression that they never know what a woman is going to say, whereas they are reasonably sure what a man will address himself to and how he will do it. So are the women; for them, too, men tend to be predictable. Women listen to women with a different kind of attention, and part of it may be loyalty to our gender; we want all of us to do well, as if we have the esprit de corps of subalterns among generals.”
― Turn: The Journal of an Artist
When men speak in these meetings, women relax; when women speak, men grow tense. I have the impression that they never know what a woman is going to say, whereas they are reasonably sure what a man will address himself to and how he will do it. So are the women; for them, too, men tend to be predictable. Women listen to women with a different kind of attention, and part of it may be loyalty to our gender; we want all of us to do well, as if we have the esprit de corps of subalterns among generals.”
― Turn: The Journal of an Artist
