by Andrew Decker
July 23, 2008
Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World, 256 pp., W.W. Norton (November, 2008), $24.95.
Early on in Sarah Thornton’s often breezy Seven Days in the Art World, a travelogue about seven major art-world events, the author is seated at a glitzy auction at Christie’s New York. She recalls first the comment of an unnamed auction-house specialist who has described capricious collectors as "of-the-moment people who have a very plastic approach to their collection," and then a remark by a collector who likened choosing an auction house for one’s art sales to deciding on a plastic surgeon. "You want to go with someone you can trust."
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