All That Glitters : A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Author(s): Whitfield, Orlando
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 03/04/2025,
Pagination: 336 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781788169967,
Description:

A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening StandardAn Independent Book of the Year 2024'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe'Explosive ... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist'A brilliant, devastating exposé' William BoydDECEPTION 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.