{"product_id":"2940170550869","title":"Seven Days in the Art World","description":"The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102472814832,"sku":"2940170550869","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170550869_p0.jpg?v=1763712103","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170550869","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}