Boom - Michael Shnayerson
Boom - Michael Shnayerson The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers.…
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Boom - Michael Shnayerson
The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. But none of it would happen without the dealers-the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success, often to see them picked off by a rival.Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions. They can make and break careers and fortunes.The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party.
He has spoken to all of today's so-called mega dealers -- Larry Gagosian, Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, writes the first ever definitive history of their activities.