True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World

Bestselling author Anthony Haden-Guest covers the past three decades of the American art scene. Filled with incredible anecdotes, dramatically told stories, and subtle critical assessments, "True Colors" tells the story of the art world that we have never heard before. "Sexier than "Artforum", brainier that "Vanity Fair"".--"Kirkus Reviews". of color photos.

This sometimes hilarious, sometimes scathing book is the most honest account to be found of the fashionable, fabulous, and often ugly New York art world of the last quarter century. This was the first time in history when visual artists came fully under the glare of the media and evolved into pop cultural figures. Here are Andy, Jean-Michel, Leo, and Julian as only art and cultural critic Anthony Haden-Guest can present them. Revealing anecdotes (and gossip) offer a sense of how the art world really works, its politics, its scene, and how artists survive in it or not. Wry, witty, and insightful, Hayden-Guest provides an absorbing narrative on how the art world got the way it is and where it is likely to go from here. This fresh look into art and artists is quite a thing apart from studying at the museum or library; True Colors makes you feel genuinely present at the most chi-chi art opening or cocktail party in town.