The Art of the Steal
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001N8ELN0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. It would have made for smoother reading if Mason (or his editor) had done some pruning: how many times do we need to be told that Brooks is six feet tall or that Taubman's wife, Judy, is a glamorous former beauty queen? But in the end, it's the story that carries the day-an amazing and depressing chronicle of greed in the name of culture that should (but probably won't) keep art buyers from ever walking into an auction house again. Alfred Taubman, the shopping-mall king who bought Sotheby's in 1983 to keep it from falling into the hands of a couple of carpet salesmen, became the only principal in the case to actually do jail time-apparently
. Christopher Mason is a contributor to the New York Times and New York magazine. He writes frequently on the worlds of art, society, fashion, and design
Robert J. Frishman said Informative.. This was a close look at corporate London/New York greed within my world of antiques dealing, and it was nice to see comeupance for some amorality, but I'm not sure how much anybody or anything has really changed in the auction world. The stakes are just too high, so probably now the crooks are just more careful.. High society shows its greed in Mason's book P. Dunham A great description of New York high life amidst one of the biggest money scandals of recent memory. Mason keeps the pace fast and sizzling. Lots of colorful details of the characters of high society and the art world make this a fast paced read. He even kees the business and legal side of the story scintilating. I. Mary E. Sibley said Gemini. The time was December 1999. It was Davidge of Christie's v. Diane (Dede) Brooks of Sotheby's since Tennant and Taubman of Christie's and Sotheby's, heads of the boards of directors, had seemingly conspired to fix prices. They, Taubman and Tennant, sought to withdraw from the fray and view the matter from on high wh
It offers an unprecedented look inside this secretive, glamorous, gold-plated industry, describing just how Sotheby's and Christie's grew from clubby, aristocratic businesses into slick international corporations. And it shows how the groundwork for the most recent illegal activities was laid decades before the perpetrators were caught by federal prosecutors.. The Art of the Steal tells the story of several larger-than-life figures - the billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede B