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'The narrative is packed with scrumptious anecdotes and revealing
portraits of key players and artists... In this rich, superbly nuanced
history, Shnayerson fully demonstrates that he has his finger on the
financial pulse of modern art.'―Kirkus,Starred Review'Focusing on
personalities as much as business development, Shnayerson's writing is
conversational and accessible, even for those without deep art
knowledge. Fast-paced and eye-opening, this is a wildly entertaining
business history.'―Publishers Weekly'In Boom, Michael Shnayerson
masterfully traces the blaze-like contemporary art market back to what
now seem like unassuming origins. He tells how, somewhere along the way,
dealers persuaded the rest of the art world that what they were looking
at was not as important as why they were looking at it. And the why, as
it turns out, was money.'―Graydon Carter, former editor ofVanity Fair
and founder ofAir Mailnewsletter'How did the art world-the rarefied,
decorous realm of a few hundred in the 1960s-become the art market?
Michael Shnayerson penetrates the mysterious conclave of taste, style
and money in this sparkling, high-octane account. It's all here and
beautifully bound together, from Lucien Freud's gambling debts to the
AIDS epidemic to private museums to the magical question of whether the
artist makes the dealer or the dealer the artist.'―Stacy Schiff,
author of Cleopatra: A Life and The Witches: Salem, 1692'Boom reflects
better than anything I have read the characters, the motives, and the
overall vibe of the contemporary art world.'―Daniel Weiss, President
and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art'The high end of the
contemporary art market is driven by branding, backstories, mega
dealers, art fairs, art investment funds, and occasionally, a hugely
talented artist. Most important, it is driven by people. Michael
Shnayerson has done the best job I know in pulling all these together.
Think of the book as a 400-page Vanity Fair article (where he is a
longtime contributing editor). I offer that comparison as a compliment
to its style and depth of detail. He has captured profiles of the megadealers:
Gagosian, Zwirner, Wirth, and the Glimchers; the billionaire
collectors; and the lawsuits, with background and astute observations.
My own books on the contemporary art market would have been much
improved this had come earlier. A great read.'―Don Thompson is the
author of The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of
Contemporary Art, and The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and
Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market'Part Painted Bird, part Off the

Wall, and part Duveen, Michael Shnayerson's Boom deftly captures the
extraordinary dynamics at work in the contemporary art market by
focusing on the global mega dealers and their constantly evolving stable
of artists, many of whom together have become fabulously rich beyond
their wildest dreams. In Shnayerson's confident hands, the story of
their successes is riveting, informative, and often hard to fathom.'―
William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched
Excess on Wall Street'The book is a pleasure to read, lively, smart, and
wonderfully informative, full of the big personalities, genius, passion,
and skullduggery of the contemporary art world.'―Roxana Robinson
author ofGeorgia O'Keeffe: A Life Michael Shnayerson is a long-time
contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the author of eight books on a
range of non-fiction subjects, from biographies of entertainer Harry
Belafonte (My Song) and New York governor Andrew Cuomo (The Contender)
to narrative-driven accounts of drug-resistant bacteria (The Killer
Within) and mountaintop coal removal (Coal River). Shnayerson is married
to Gayfryd Steinberg, and lives in Sag Harbor and Manhattan.