This highly readable and timely book explores the transformation of the modern and contemporary art market in the 21st century from a niche trade to a globalise

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This book scrutinizes the excesses and extravagances that the 21st-century explosion of the contemporary art market brought in its wake. The buying of art as an

Public Spaces / Private Passions critically examines the growth of private museums in the 21st century, their impact on public institutions and what the future