Collecting Contemporary Art

Confessions of a connoisseur: Insiders tips on how the design art market really works "Art is about life the art market is about money." Damien Hirst Whether youre an art fan aficionado or collector this completely unique book should be on your required reading list. Like a textbook for a class given by all of the worlds leading experts Collecting Contemporary Art is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the contemporary art market. The introduction explains the ABCs of buying art on the primary and secondary markets at auction and at art fairs and gives an overview of the world art scene and its social circles. The main body of the book brings together tell-all interviews with the biggest players in the global art market: the Critic (Rimanelli) the Dealer (Boesky Brunnet/Hackert Coles Deitch Fortes Gagosian Gladstone Glimcher Hetzler Lybke Perrotin Rosen Shave Wirth) the Consultant (Cortez Fletcher Heller Segalot Westreich) the Collector (Brant Broad Habsburg Joannou Lambert Lehmann Lopez Paz Pinault Rothschild Foundation Saatchi) the Auction House Expert (Cappellazzo de Pury Meyer) and the Museum Curator/Director (Dennison Eccles Heiss Lowry Peyton-Jones). Rounding up the book are chapters on the year in art collectinggiving a timeline of the most important annual auctions exhibitions fairs etc. around the worldas well as a glossary of terms every art savvy player should know. The text is illustrated by the work of the hottest artists in todays market including Matthew Barney Jean-Michel Basquiat Damien Hirst Mike Kelley Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons Takashi Murakami Richard Serra Cindy Sherman Andy Warhol Lisa Yuskavage and many more. All in all these elements add up to the equivalent of an invaluable and privileged real-world collectors educationall between the covers of one book.