When art went boom
Reading about the booming, celebrity-infected, extravagant world of contemporary art now, after some slight changes in the global economic situation is "like leafing through Country Life in the trenches at Passchendaele, or contemplating high-end millinery on Iwo Jima", Angus Trumble writes. Sarah Thornton's book captures a week's worth of auctions, jet-setting and exhibitions.
