How institutions are constructed, how they are funded, whom they hire, whom they serve, what their vision of art in public life is—all these things go into the politics of the institution, and all of…
Comprehensive, clear-eyed books about the art world are few and far between. Anthony Haden-Guest's True Colors (1998) offers a juicy look at the 1980s market surge, as Mary Boone swilled Champagne at…