Britain's hippest academic' Daily Telegraph 'Seven Days in the Art World is a great page-turner . . . I worry that the book demystifies things so much that the next generation of artists will be over-informed' Grayson Perry, artist 'It's like having your own spy in the art world. Thornton parachutes the reader into the fascinating nitty gritty of how it all works' Alan Yentob, Creative Director, BBC 'Thorntona's eye for detail is uncanny . . . [She] refuses the lure of being an authority: her material is quicksilver, and she's wise enough to know it' Artnet.com a A smart, engagingly written insidera's look at the machinations and manipulations of todaya's art world. And what machinations they are, from the behind-the-scenes drama of a Christiea's auction to the empire building of such artist-celebrities as Takashi Murakami, with his multiple studios, to that ultimate art group-grope, the Venice Biennale, all limned here in fascinating detail. A great reada' Annalyn Swan, co-author of De Kooning: An American Master, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
