I'm looking for both good practical guides to the legal and financial aspects of the business and entertaining non-fiction reads about the art world and art market.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago)
Well, for entertaining non-fiction reads, I'd reccomend Matthew Collings - especially Blimey! and It Hurts.
I know he has lots of haters for his slightly supercillious Turner Prize presenting antics, but I do find his writing both light and frothy, but also quite pithy.
― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:50 (sixteen years ago)
I bought The http://www.amazon.co.uk/Million-Stuffed-Shark-Economics-Contemporary/dp/18451330212 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art for someone as a present. I flicked through it first and it seemed entertaining enough, but I didn't read the whole thing.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 12:56 (sixteen years ago)
Oops. This is the right link. Apologies for messing up your thread.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 12:58 (sixteen years ago)
This is a total guilty pleasure but it took me two days to read it all:
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Days-World-Sarah-Thornton/dp/039306722X
― furry chateau (admrl), Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago)
I mean, it won't really provide you with any fresh insight unless you live in the woods and have no idea there is an art "market" but it is hilarious trash all the same.
― furry chateau (admrl), Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago)
I actually learned a surprising amount from Steve Martin's 'The Object of My Affection'
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Thursday, 10 November 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago)