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Ｏｎｌｉｎｅ ï¼°ï½'ｅｍｉｕｍ / Ｒｅａｄ Ｏｎｌｉｎｅ Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson pdf epub free download zip rar/online Review "The narrative is packed with scrumptious anecdotes and revealing portraits of key players and artists... In this rich, superbly nuanced history, Shnayerson fully demonstrates that he has his finger on the financial pulse of modern art."―Kirkus, Starred Review"Focusing on personalities as much as business development, Shnayerson's writing is conversational and accessible, even for those without deep art knowledge. Fast-paced and eye-opening, this is a wildly entertaining business history."―Publishers Weekly"In Boom, Michael Shnayerson masterfully traces the blaze-like contemporary art market back to what now seem like unassuming origins. He tells how, somewhere along the way, dealers persuaded the rest of the art world that what they were looking at was not as important as why they were looking at it. And the why, as it turns out, was money."―Graydon Carter, former editor of Vanity Fair and founder of Air Mail newsletter"How did the art world-the rarefied, decorous realm of a few hundred in the 1960s-become the art market? Michael Shnayerson penetrates the mysterious conclave of taste, style and money in this sparkling, high-octane account. It's all here and beautifully bound together, from Lucien Freud's gambling debts to the AIDS epidemic to private museums to the magical question of whether the artist makes the dealer or the dealer the artist."―Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life and The Witches: Salem, 1692"The high end of the contemporary art market is driven by branding, backstories, mega dealers, art fairs, art investment funds, and occasionally, a hugely talented artist. Most important, it is driven by people. Michael Shnayerson has done the best job I know in pulling all these together. Think of the book as a 400-page Vanity Fair article (where he is a longtime contributing editor). I offer that comparison as a compliment to its style and depth of detail. He has captured profiles of the mega-dealers: Gagosian, Zwirner, Wirth, and the Glimchers; the billionaire collectors; and the lawsuits, with background and astute observations. My own books on the contemporary art market would have been much improved this had come earlier. A great read."―Don Thompson is the author of The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art, and The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market"Part Painted Bird, part Off the Wall, and part Duveen, Michael Shnayerson's Boom deftly captures the extraordinary dynamics at work in the contemporary art market by focusing on the global mega dealers and their constantly evolving stable of artists, many of whom together have become fabulously rich beyond their wildest dreams. In Shnayerson's confident hands, the story of their successes is riveting, informative, and often hard to fathom."―William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street"The book is a pleasure to read, lively, smart, and wonderfully informative, full of the big personalities, genius, passion, and skullduggery of the contemporary art world."―Roxana Robinson author of Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life Read more About the Author Michael Shnayerson is a long-time contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the author of eight books on a range of non-fiction subjects, from biographies of entertainer Harry Belafonte (My Song) and New York governor Andrew Cuomo (The Contender) to narrative-driven accounts of drug-resistant bacteria (The Killer Within) and mountaintop coal removal (Coal River). Shnayerson is married to Gayfryd Steinberg, and lives in Sag Harbor and Manhattan. Read more

PublicAffairs; 1 edition (May 21, 2019)

Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson

Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson is From the very first page, I felt like an insider. Great details I’d never heard or thought to ask. Now I have a little bit of a glimmer as to how the enormous art machine works. From details as small as the Loro Piano loafers to a perfect rendition of the NY 57th art scene after the war- loved early minute. Started it at night after dinner and couldn’t put it down.

Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson is Beautifully written page turner. Sad what's happened to art collection, but fascinating to find out how we got to the art-for-investment's sake situation we have today.

Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson is What a great dish! the book is instructive appalling in how much power has accrued to these dealers fun to read and you will be absorbed by another world. Game of thrones in the art world!

Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson is While the focus in Boom is the business end of art, there is still plenty about the art and artists. Starting with a concise explanation of the differences between modern art and contemporary art, we learn about abstract expressionism as well. Interesting, but perhaps not surprising, are the methods art dealers use to exaggerate the value of art, such as setting artificially high values prior to auction, then swapping works of art rather than actually buying them. That way two dealers can officially have been said to have "paid" vast amounts for works and establish a "worth" that is inflated beyond their actual ability to pay. Meanwhile, there is plenty of gossip about the characters who inhabit the art world. Honestly, you'd think artists like Damien Hirst are performance artists when you consider how much of their fame and popularity has to do with their eccentric behavior rather than the desirability of their actual art. Fun and informative look behind the scenes at the museum and gallery.