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Seven Days in the Art World Sarah Thornton
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

Filed under: NA-2_TUES/THURS, PPT, PRESENTATIONS — Leave a comment. It's worth noting, that unlike “Seven Days”, “Object of Beauty” is a work of fiction. Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World. One of the biggest fights I've ever had with my mother was about modern art. Probably the best overview of the contemporary art world in America that's been written. Elena Diez – “Seven Days in the Art World” by Sarah Thornton. It's an easy read and compelling. Like this: Like Loading Comments RSS feed. This past week I ended my contemporary art survey class with an examination of the art market and the place of the collector in the circulating discourses concerning "value" and "hype" in the art world. More responsible galleries take great care in the distribution of their artist's work. Felix Salmon passes judgment on Seven Days in the Art World. WHAT SEVEN DAYS IN THE ART WORLD IS ABOUT-. We generally don't agree with Felix Salmon's rote assumption that Contemporary art is a bubble. If “all the world's a stage” then Sarah Thornton's “Seven Days in the Art World” captures some entertaining performances by elitist cabals of the contemporary art world in seven acts. Seven Days in the Art World and The $12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark are both required reading for entry level collectors and dealers. In this chapter Thornton relates her experience visiting the various studios and work spaces of Japanese contemporary artist, Takashi Murakami. One useful way of reading Seven Days In The Art World is as an artistic variant on Marshall McLuhan's notion that "culture is our business, and business is our culture." In this instance, our culture is art and it is all business.