Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Art Issue

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, Holland Cotter discusses four new books and the contemporary art scene; Alexandra Alter has notes from the publishing world; Jonathon Keats talks about art theft and forgeries; questions from readers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	How does a non-art person make sense of the art world?
0:05.7	Colin's codder will be here to talk about four new books that look into contemporary
0:09.7	painting.
0:10.7	What I like to do is think of the contemporary scene and the gallery scene as being a source
0:15.6	of discovery.
0:17.1	So I can't know ahead of time what I'm going to see, and I like that part of it.
0:20.7	Why does art lead so often to crime?
0:23.2	Jonathan Keats will talk about two new books, The Art of the Con and Master Theives.
0:28.4	Certainly, the way in which online venues impersonalize the process by which art is bought
0:35.3	and sold opens up all sorts of opportunities for new kinds of crime.
0:39.9	Alexander Altar will tell us what's going on in the publishing world.
0:43.2	Greg Cole's has bestseller news.
0:45.6	And we'll let readers and listeners ask a few questions for us editors here at the Booker
0:49.1	View.
0:50.1	This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.
0:51.7	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:58.9	Holland Codder joins us now.
1:00.4	He is an art critic for the Times, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2009,
1:05.8	and a reviewer this week of several books about contemporary art.
1:10.3	Hi, Holland.
1:11.3	Hi.
1:12.3	Thanks so much for joining us.
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