Seven days in the art world

Sarah Thornton’s vivid ethnography-an international hit, now translated into ten languages-reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world. In a series of day-in-the-life narratives set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo, Seven Days in the Art World explores the dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life.
“Seven Days is lighthearted but sociologically acute, allowing us to both laugh at and empathize with those for whom ‘contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion.’… The Verdict: Read.” –Time
“The best book yet written about the modern-art boom…a Robert Altmanesque panorama of the most important cultural phenomenon of the last ten years.”-Sunday Times (London)
“An exhaustively researched and intelligently written… refreshingly open-minded exploration.”-Washington Post
“A field guide to the insular and nomadic tribes of the contemporary art world. The book was reported and written in a heated art market, but is poised to endure as a work of sociology.” -New York Times Book Review