Titles and covers

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
There are books that the title doesn't attract you, and because of that you don't read them. Other books you feel the desire of reading them because of the cover. Those two are reasons that are partly true in my case, I realize now, after I've read To Kill a Mockingbird.
Words like 'chillun' (for children) ans 'suh' (for sir) really transport you to the Alabama world of the 1930's.

7 days to know the art world

Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the Art World
I already read this highly entertaining book some time ago. It explains in each chapter a different aspects of the art market. And money of course moving about everything.
Recommended.

Art manners with a laugh

The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style/ Manual de Estilo del Arte Contemporáneo is a relatively old book, published 2005, but still very much up to date. It was the perfect book after reading Don Thomson's book: "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art". With this last one I was at the border of crying and with Pablo Helguera's there are few moments without a laugh. But still the laugh comes from the cynism and irony that the art world is made of now days. It is often painful but mostly true.
The comparison of the art world to a chess game makes it very easy to understand for those that are not that near to the AW (art world) as he calls it.
In English and Spanish.
Pablo Helguera

Would there be art without the art market?

What am I reading?

Would there be art without the art market? There would certainly be art, but it would look very different. The choice and taste of the collectors shape more than ever the form of the art world. I try not to get depressed by this reality as I read:
"The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art" by Don Thompson.
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