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Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson's 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed Shark and offers a further journey of discovery into what the Crash of 2008 did to the art market and the changing methods that the major auction houses and dealerships have implemented since then. It describes what happened to that market after the economic implosion following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and offers insights and art-world tales from dealers, auction houses, and former executives of each, from New York and London to Abu Dhabi and Beijing. It begins with the story of a wax, trophy-style, nude upper-body sculpture of supermodel Stephanie Seymour by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which sold for $2.4 million to New York uber-collector and private dealer Jose Mugrabi, and recounts the story of a wooden Brillo box that sold for $722,500. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box looks at the increasing dominance of Christie's, Sotheby's, and a few uber dealers; the hundreds of millions of new museums coming up in cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Beijing; the growing importance of the digital art world; and the shrinking role of the mainstream gallery.

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  • Title The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art
  • Author Don Thompson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, New York
  • Publication date 2014
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781137279088 / 1137279087
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.38 x 0.99 in (24.38 x 16.21 x 2.51 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Art, Modern - 21st century - Economic aspects, Art - Marketing - History - 21st century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013036143
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.05

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Don Thompson is an economist and Emeritus Nabisco Brands Professor of Marketing and Strategy at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. He has taught at Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics, and is the author of 11 books. He writes on the economics of the art market for publications as diverse as The Times (London), Harper's Magazine, and The Art Economist. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
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