First of all, I’d like to apologize for not posting lately. I’ve been very busy with art history slide tests, French midterms, and film essays. Anyway, glad to finally be on holiday! Here’s my blurb on Seven Days in the Art World:

As an objective narrator, Sarah Thornton offers a self-effacing approach to the art world, allowing the lively (and sometimes outré) characters to contribute their own perspectives. Some of the interviews offer intriguing answers to difficult questions like “what is art?” and “what is an artist?” However, one of my favourite quotes comes from Thornton herself:

Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that “looks like art” and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. Curators pander to the expectations of their peers and their museum boards. Collectors run in herds to buy work by a handful of fashionable painters. Critics stick their finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing so as to “get it right”. Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d’être to the rest.