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Art of darkness

Today's art market is as much a focus of global attention as it is of fluctuations and trends, of supply and demand

Visitors at the India Art Fair 2018 in Delhi
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Visitors at the India Art Fair 2018 in Delhi

Kishore Singh
India Art Fair is an occasion to celebrate art, artists, and the art market, not a time for negativity, and definitely not for reading Georgina Adam’s terrifying book, Dark Side of the Boom. It’s as engrossing as a thriller, and about as blood-curdling. Adam, an art writer for FT and The Art Newspaper, has shadowed the global art market closely — and here she spills it all, blood, gore and entrails. 

Today’s art market is as much a focus of global attention as it is of fluctuations and trends, of supply and demand. For years, stories and rumours have done the