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#1 A Christie's auctioneer, Christopher Burge, is doing a sound check. He lists prices into the void, and then hits everyone but the highest bidder with a stick. His book is a secret script for the sale, with 64 pages for each lot of art.
#2 Christie's and Sotheby's, two of the biggest auction houses, hold their major sales of contemporary art twice a year in New York...
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The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the...
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