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

The art world is an exclusive, strictly members only club which one can only dream about setting heeled-foot inside. Probably the best overview of the contemporary art world in America that's been written. Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World. I'm currently reading Seven Days In the Art World, by Sarah Thornton, perhaps most well known for her book about sub-cultural capital and the rave scene. Talking Prices – Symbolic meanings of prices on the market of Contemporary Art 2. It is a closed sphere, designed by insiders for insiders. Seven Days in the Art World – By Sarah Thornton 4. Felix Salmon passes judgment on Seven Days in the Art World. The 12 Million Stuffed Shark – The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art 3. P99: More people than ever are buying contemporary art, and chances are that most of it is historically insignificant. Sarah Thornton has a BA in Art History and a PhD in Sociology. Sarah Thornton's book Seven Days in the Art World, which documents the frenzied peak of the recent art boom, arrives next week in American bookstores, just as that boom appears to be sputtering out. We generally don't agree with Felix Salmon's rote assumption that Contemporary art is a bubble. It's an easy read and compelling.