[ebooks] Great Jobs for Theater Majors; Second edition (Great Jobs Forhellip;Series) by Jan Goldberg at Arts-Photography

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A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make; trade; curate; collect; and hype contemporary art.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 beautifully paced narratives; Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christies auction; the workings in Takashi Murakamis studios; the elite at the Basel Art Fair; the eccentricities of Artforum magazine; the competition behind an important art prize; life in a notorious art-school seminar; and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity; taste; status; money; and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history; based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players; Thorntons entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.