Seven Days in Art

The art market is booming. Museum attendance is growing. More people than ever are calling themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment and a luxury item. This book by Sara Thornton is a unique exploration of the mysterious realm of our world, where each chapter is a separate essay on how one of its facets works from the inside. The author, as if holding a video camera, will visit an auction and a biennale, a New York magazine, an art institute, a fair, an artist's studio, and an award ceremony. This journey, which is hardly accessible to everyone, the reader will undertake with her from beginning to end, always being at the very center of events. Sara Thornton candidly looks at the element of art from the inside and convincingly argues that this fascinating world is not only outrageous and fake, but at times simply amusing.