Seven Days in the Art World

The Auction
This first chapter was a little too much. The author started the book off with intensity of a christie's auction. It seems that once you go high enough the art world is moved by a relativly small group of people. I have always thought it was this way but i have never read a first hand account. The world of famous art and artist is suprisingly fluid and the reputation and price of an artist's work can deminish because of something like a rumor. I suppose its something that must be put up with if you are fortunate enough to gain that kind of notoriaty.

The Crit
This chapter shows the reader what grad school for the arts is like. She talks about the crit, which is an 8 hour event where each grad student displays his or her work in front of the rest of the class. It gives the student a chance to explain his or her work. I think this is a good practice if you are getting good responses from your peers which is not always so. I like the way she decribed the students as they were ariving and getting into thier poses. This was a good chapter for students in our position as we are about to graduate. It shed some like, for me atleast on what grad school will be like.