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The Dark Side of the Art Market

Published on , by Vincent Noce

The star of the milieu Georgina Adam, who works with leading papers like the Financial Times and Art Newspaper, recently published a new book on the excesses of the art market. But with the typical reserve of British journalism, she does not reveal her own feelings much...

Georgina Adam, "Dark Side of the Boom: the excesses of the Art Market in the 21st... The Dark Side of the Art Market
Georgina Adam, "Dark Side of the Boom: the excesses of the Art Market in the 21st centu­­­ry", Lund Humphries, London, 232 pp., in English, £20.
For the opening of the new West Bund Art & Design exhibition in Shanghai in 2016, forty waiters opened the proceedings by offering the 360 top brass guests "sea cucumber intestines nestling inside frozen globes". At the end of the evening, guests could choose one of the waitresses to join them in their rooms…
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