Seven days in the Art World
Seven days in the Art World
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he hot, hip contemporary art world, argues sociologist Thornton, is a cluster of intermingling subcultures unified by the belief, whether genuine or feigned, that nothing is more important than the art itself. It is a conviction, she asserts, that has transformed contemporary art into a kind of alternative religion for atheists. Thornton, a contributor to Artforum.com and the New Yorker, presents an astute and often entertaining ethnography of this status-driven world. Each of the seven chapters is a keenly observed profile of that world´s highest echelons: a Christie´s auction, a crit session at the California Institute of the Arts and the Art Basel art fair. The chapter on auctions (where one auction-goer explains, [I]t´s dangerous to wear Prada.... You might get caught in the same outfit as three members of Christie´s staff) is one of the book´s strongest; the author´s conversations about the role of the art critic with Artforum editor-in-chief Tim Griffin and the New Yorker´s Peter Schjeldahl are edifying. Thornton offers an elegant, evocative, sardonic view into some of the art world´s most prestigious institutions.
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