All That Glitters (Main)
A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards

By (author) Orlando Whitfield

ISBN13: 9781788169967

Imprint: Profile Books Ltd

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 03/04/2025

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A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at Waterstones A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard 'My favourite book of 2024... A masterclass of a book' Brandon Taylor 'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe DECEPTION 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 - suddenly 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. 'Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian 'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist
  • History of art / art & design styles
  • Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks
  • True crime
  • General (US: Trade)
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