This book scrutinizes the excesses and extravagances that the 21st-century explosion of the contemporary art market brought in its wake.
The buying of art as an investment, temptations to forgery and fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and pressure to produce more and more art all form part of this story, as do the upheavals in auction houses and the impact of the enhanced use of financial instruments on art transactions.
Drawing on a series of tenaciously wrought interviews with artists, colle.
Lund Humphries Dark side of the boom: the excesses of the art market in the 21st century, paperback/georgina adam
