Recently, the soaring prices and the excitement surrounding the Contemporary Art market hit the front pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. This sort of mainstream journalistie attention suggests that perhaps we are in the midst of an historic shift in the history of the art market, if not art history itself. Certainly there had been a major boom and bust only a decade ago in the Contemporary Art world, when artists like Julian Schnabel, Eric Fisehl and David Salle had waiting lists a mile long; however, never before had a painting that sold for well under $100 000 (e.g. John Currin’s Fishermen [2002]) been flipped for more than $1.5 million in only two or three years.

Preface

Introduction

Getting started

The Basies

The seven types of art market players

THE ARTIST

THE ART CRITIC

David Rimanelli                   

THE ART DEALER

Marianne Boesky

Bruno Brunnet and Nieole Haekert

Sadie Coles

Jeffrey Deiteh

Mfireia Fortes

Larry Gagosian

Barbara Gladstone

Mare Glimeher

Max I tetzler

Gerd Harry Lybke

Emmanuel Perrotin

Andrea Rosen

Stuart Shave

I wan Wirth

THE ART CONSULTANT

Diego Cortez

Mark Fletcher

Sanford Heller

Philippe Segalot

Thea Westreieh

THE COLLECTOR

Peter M. Brant

Eli Broad

Francesca von Habsburg

Dakis Joannou

Baroness Marion Lambert

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Eugenio L6pez

Bernardo Paz

Francois Pinault

The Judith Rothschild Foundation

Charles Saatehi

THE AUCTION HOUSE EXPERT

Amy Cappellazzo

Simon de Pury

Tobias Meyer

THE MUSEUM PROFESSIONAL: DIRECTORS AND CURATORS

Lisa Dennison

Tom Eeeles

Alanna Heiss

Glenn Lowry

Julia Peyton-Jones

More useful information

A Conversation with Samuel Keller

A Year in art collecting

Partial glossary of terms you need to know

Magazines and Websites

Index

Photo eredits

Biography of the author/Acknowledgements