Orlando Whitfield

All That Glitters

A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

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Produktbeschreibung

§A Waterstones and Independent Book of the Year 2024

A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard

'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe

'A brilliant, devastating exposé' William Boyd

'Explosive ... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian

'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist

DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - suddenly disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.

A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 8549
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781788169967
• ISBN-10: 1788169964
• Artikelnr.: 62535608

Autorenporträt

Orlando Whitfield graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2009. He started dealing art while still a student, and worked in and around the art market for fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review and the White Review. All That Glitters is his first book.

Rezensionen

Studded with blue-chip names, multi-million-dollar paintings, private jets and bottles of Dom Pérignon '08, this tantalizing glimpse by a former dealer into the art world's most rarefied stratum doubles as a cautionary tale about a largely unregulated industry where hubris, greed and fraud abound New York Times