"Fake," "Hammer" and “Portrait of an Unknown Lady” are literary thrillers that explore authenticity through the lens, or rather the canvases, of the art world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-03-24 15:38:03 UTC ]
Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm detail the doings of a rogue’s gallery of art scammers, rascals and outright thieves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
Chicago’s memoir, “The Flowering,” looks back at the uphill battle to make it in the art world as a woman. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-07-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
Sceptre has acquired Tiepolo Blue, a satire set in the art world of 1990s London, at auction. The book, charting the fall from grace of an esteemed Cambridge professor, is the debut of James Cahill, a critic and academic at King’s College London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 03:09:25 UTC ]
Jasper Joffe has seen his paintings bought by Saatchi and rubbed shoulders with Bob and Roberta Smith, but now his digital-first list is outdoing a number of Big Four foes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Year’s weekend will be generally quiet as far as openings go — though the museums will all be doing their thing, with some terrific shows ongoing. But the art world gets cooking again early next week with the opening of a film festival at the Hammer Museum and a show at LACE that examines the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A two-part exhibition complete with driving tour. Examining the psychology of the art world through Twitter. And an exhibition that explores the nature of dance. Plus: abstractions of L.A., art from Cuba and a daylong art party on Grand Avenue. Here are seven shows not to miss — along with one... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Smith at Zaffre, the new adult fiction imprint at Bonnier Publishing, has sold US rights for L S Hilton's Maestra in a seven-figure pre-empt to Putnam. Maestra is the first of three psychological thrillers set in the art world, and has already been optioned by Columbia Pictures for a film... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pluto Press has acquired a study of curation by author and critic David Balzer, titled Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else. Editor David Shulman bought World English rights, excluding North America, from Coach House Press in Canada. Curationism is described as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]