Sarah Thornton

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  Sarah Thornton Gives Successful Art Talks in Canada Released April 29, 2009 Sarah Thornton Gives Successful Art Talks in Canada
  
  In celebration of Canadian Art's 25th anniversary year, the Canadian Art Foundation is pleased to present Art Talks 2009, an enhanced series of lectures with leading art-world figures: artists, writers, curators, collectors and museum directors at institutions across the country.
  
  In April, Art Talks 2009 presented Sarah Thornton in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver. Thornton is the author of Seven Days in the Art World, and shared her views on the international contemporary art world.
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  "It was an absolute treat to hear Sarah Thornton, and I'm grateful to the Canadian Art Foundation for providing such first-rate public programming."
  
  A Canadian based in the UK, Thornton has a BA in art history and a PhD in sociology. She writes about art, the art world and the art market for many publications, including the Art Newspaper and Artforum. Thornton has taught cultural studies at Sussex University, and has been a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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  March 1: Sarah Thornton, "Seven Days in the Art World ... and Counting"
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  Sociologist Sarah Thornton will speak about "Seven Days in the Art World ... and Counting" on March 1.

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  By Sarah Thornton
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  Writer Sarah Thornton's latest book chronicles - at times, hour by hour - different aspects of the international art world.
  
  She visits an auction at Christie's, an art market, the offices of Artforum magazine, an art school, and an artist's studio, among others. That's not to say that the book is only for contemporary art lovers, however.
  
  Like her first book, Club Cultures, which looked at the world of raves and dance clubs, Seven Days is a primer on a particular subculture. Instead of ravers, this time she focuses on the people who create, sell, and buy art.
  
  Thornton writes in an accessible, knowledgeable voice, and her inclusion of tiny details provides nuance and texture. During the visit to the artist's studio, for example, she even goes so far as to record who was sitting where on the plane. (The artist was in first class, the dealers weren't far behind, and the museum staff were in economy. No word, however, on where the author herself sat.)
  
  In many ways, Seven Days is also a study of a market where value is as amorphous as, and more subjective than, the dollar itself. In recent years, more work by living artists has been sold at auction, and the time between when a work leaves a studio and winds up on the resale market has gotten much shorter.
  
  "Primary dealers usually try to avoid selling to people who will 'flip' artworks at auction, so they don't lose control of their artists' prices," Thornton writes.

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  In her latest book, Seven Days in the Art World, writer Sarah Thornton constructs a remarkably balanced record of the postmillennial art world.

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  Sarah Thornton is a sociologist and writer who spent five years immersing herself in the art statusphere - the sometimes catty, frequently snooty world of true believers whose devotion to art is akin to religious zeal. Her new book is Seven Days in the Art World, and she joins us on Word of Mouth to talk about her adventures.

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  Sarah Thornton is a sociologist and writer who spent five years immersing herself in the art statusphere - the sometimes catty, frequently snooty world of true believers whose devotion to art is akin to religious zeal. Her new book is Seven Days in the Art World, and she joins us on Word of Mouth to talk about her adventures.
  
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  By Sarah Thornton
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  Writer Sarah Thornton's latest book chronicles — at times, hour by hour — different aspects of the international art world.
  
  She visits an auction at Christie's, an art market, the offices of Artforum magazine, an art school, and an artist's studio, among others.
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  Thornton writes in an accessible, knowledgeable voice, and her inclusion of tiny details provides nuance and texture. During the visit to the artist's studio, for example, she even goes so far as to record who was sitting where on the plane. (The artist was in first class, the dealers weren't far behind, and the museum staff were in economy. No word, however, on where the author herself sat.)
  
  In many ways, Seven Days is also a study of a market where value is as amorphous as, and more subjective than, the dollar itself. In recent years, more work by living artists has been sold at auction, and the time between when a work leaves a studio and winds up on the resale market has gotten much shorter.
  
  "Primary dealers usually try to avoid selling to people who will 'flip' artworks at auction, so they don't lose control of their artists' prices," Thornton writes.

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  Sociologist Sarah Thornton takes us deep inside the world of contemporary art scenesters.

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  Left: Damien Hirst, Maia Norman, writer Sarah Thornton, and artist Jeff Koons.

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  So much for urbanization patterns, or dry tomes stuffed with statistics: For her latest project, sociologist Sarah Thornton went deep inside one of the most rarefied, complicated communities on the planet - the international art scene...

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