Matthew Israel

A panoramic insider's account of the global art industry, revealing the fascinating but mysterious workings of the world of contemporary art. Over the last few decades, the contemporary art world has become more globalised and more visible than ever before — and yet in many ways, it remains closed and obscure. What actually happens behind the doors of a contemporary...

In the last few decades, the world of contemporary art has become more globalised and visible than ever before. And yet this world has long been perceived as closed and obscure, provoking in the uninitiated a range of responses from reverence to bafflement and rage. Taking the reader on a cross-continental journey through a notional calendar year in the field...