6/26/2023 0 Comments Seven days in the art world![]() ![]() ![]() There is more than enough in her rigorous, precise reportage…for the reader to make his or her own connections. Seven Days in the Art World…seems destined to outlive its moment…Thornton offers an indelible portrait of a peculiar society, simultaneously cutthroat and curious…glamorous yet filled with people who would have been unpopular in high school.Īn entertaining and lucid account of the mysterious ways of contemporary art… does well to resist the temptation to draw any glib, overarching conclusions. The best book yet written about the modern-art boom…a Robert Altmanesque panorama of the most important cultural phenomenon of the last ten years. The book was reported and written in a heated art market, but it is poised to endure as a work of sociology. A field guide to the nomadic tribes of the contemporary art world. ![]()
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