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Author: Whitfield, Orlando

History of art / art & design styles

Published on 2 May 2024 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 336 pages
163 x 242 x 34 | 544g

A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, the i, and the Evening Standard ‘An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.’ Patrick Radden Keefe’Explosive … the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history’ Guardian’Liar’s Poker, but for art’ Economist’A brilliant, devastating exposé’ William BoydDECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo – by then the most successful dealer of his generation – disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.

A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.