All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

Bol Partner

Welcome to the contemporary art world: a ruthless and glamorous arena, where the rewards are limitless - if you can pay the price. Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Award for Non-Fiction A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at Waterstones A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard 'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe 'A brilliant, devastating exposé' William Boyd 'Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian 'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist DECEPTION 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.

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