Boom: An Art-World Evening with Michael Shnayerson

The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen without the dealers and mega dealers: tastemakers who back emerging artists and then steer them to success. Longtime Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson has interviewed all of today’s mega dealers, Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Arne and Marc Glimcher, and Iwan Wirth, as well as many other global art-world movers and shakers. His gripping new book Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art is the first definitive history of art dealing in our time.