BOOKS on the Art World

(in progress)

ART SCHOOL

Why Art Can't be Taught
The Beat and the Buzz, Richard Herz
Cal Arts Mafia, Richard Herz


CRITIQUES


ART MARKET/World
Seven Days in the Art World
The 12 Million Dollar Shark
9.5 Theses on art and class, by Ben Davis

GALLERIES
Peggy Guggenheim autobiography
Inside the White Cube

THE PROCESS/EXPERIENCE OF BEING AN ARTIST

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees
Art and Fear
The Accidental Masterpiece, Michael Kimmelman
More Thank You Wanted to Know about John Baldessari, Meg Cranston
Lives of the Artists, Calvin Thomkins
This Creative Live, Sharon Louden


GALLERY/MUSEUM HISTORY
CURATING
Art is a Problem, Joshua Decter

Fiction about the Art World:

An Object of Beauty, Steve Martin