Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art

by Michael Shnayerson

Book Overview

The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes.

The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610398408
• ISBN13: 9781610398404
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"