Don Thompson

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored. This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

Presents a look at the economics and psychology of the contemporary art market and examines the dominant role of a few auction houses and high-end galleries in setting its prices.

Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art

The Supermodel and the Brillo Box

$12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Ball, run by Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, is the most difficult-to-obtain ticket for any cultural event in America- in spite of being a hundred thousand dollar, tickets + outfit evening. The size of the logo on a Louis Vuitton handbag is inversely related to its price; less expensive bags have larger logos, the most expensive has the smallest (those who matter to the owner recognize the tiny logo; those who don't, don't matter). Luxury fashion conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy is the second most valuable company in the European Union, after Royal Dutch Shell. In The Curious Economics of Luxury Fashion, economist and bestselling author Don Thompson offers these and other insights and fascinating examples in discussing the intriguing and fast-evolving world of luxury fashion. Why does one handbag sells for five times the price of another that looks and feels pretty much the same? How does a luxury label justify a runway show costing many millions of dollars, when most of the outfits paraded will never appear for sale? Why are fall fashions shown on the runway in March, and spring fashions in October? The book includes stories of the people and workings of luxury fashion, from New York, London, Paris, Milan-and in the rapidly growing markets of China. It includes a chapter on "Death by Amazon and AI", the inroads and existential threat of Amazon to the luxury fashion world as it previously existed.

Millennials, Influencers and a Pandemic

The Curious Economics of Luxury Fashion

Don’s John Jokes By: Don Thompson Don Thompson has always loved telling jokes. He used to have an uncle who owned a barber shop and would visit him there a couple times a month. They would sit and tell jokes. When his uncle passed away, Thompson’s sister asked him to tell one of their jokes as he was being laid to rest. Don’s John Jokes is a collection of the jokes he has been telling for many years.

Don's John Jokes

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Collects Thor (1966) #279-290 and Annual #7-8. Prepare now — the Celestials are coming! Roy Thomas and Walter Simonson usher in the era of the Eternals, and it may mean death for all mankind. Thus begins the unbelievable war between gods known as the Celestial Saga! It’s a tale that ranks among the greatest Thor adventures of all time, and it’s a must-have for Marvel fans! Thor confronts Odin with questions about Ragnarok, his mother and the threat of the Celestials — but the All-Father withholds the truth. A Thunder God must have answers, and so Thor sets out on a quest that will bring him face-to-face with the Eternals — and the towering Fourth Host of the Celestials! Also featuring the triumvirate of terror that is Loki, Pluto and Ulik; Thor vs. Hyperion; and an Asgardian adaptation of the famous Trojan Horse!

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Ojedinělý a v češtině unikátní pohled na světový trh se současným uměním. Nesmírně čtivou a zábavnou formou identifikuje ekonomické zákony a marketingové strategie, které vedou k dosažení tak závratných cen za práce některých výtvarníků, zatímco jiní zůstávají bez povšimnutí. Autor čerpá z jedinečných rozhovorů se špičkovými aukcionáři, galeristy, výtvarníky i sběrateli, shromážděných během svého průzkumu a objasňuje psychologii trhu s uměním, který má dnes mnoho společného s prodejem luxusních značek módního zboží. Pronikavou, solidními údaji podloženou analýzu odlehčuje úsměvný přístup zdravého rozumu, který nás provází na průzkumné výpravě fascinujícím světem současného umění. O autorovi Don Thompson je ekonom a sběratel současného umění. Jako profesor obchodu a podnikání se zaměřením na marketingovou strategii působil na London School of Economics, Harvard Business School a v současné době na York University v Torontu. Je autorem nebo spoluautorem devíti knih o marketingu a ekonomice. Žije v Londýně a v Torontu.

Prapodivné zákony ekonomiky současného umění a aukčních domů

Jak prodat vycpaného žraloka (za 12 milionů dolarů)

The Evolution of Business Computing in the 1990s

Reorganizing MIS

Meet the writers, artists, colorists, and letters who bring the stories to life. This book offers wide page margins for autographs and sketches. It's perfect for comics conventions, signings and store appearances.

Comic-book Superstars

Richard A. Lupoff

A long-unavailable comics classic returns! Eleven comic-book collectors recall their childhood comics heroes - more than 100 in all. The reprint from the 1970 Arlington House original sports an all-new introduction by Comics Buyer's Guide Editor Maggie Thompson and includes 16 pages of full-color comic-book art.

All in Color for a Dime

Tibet Does Not Exist

O analiză revelatoare și pe alocuri amuzantă a suprarealistei piețe de artă contemporană. Kirkus Reviews Dacă vrei să citești o singură carte despre arta contemporană în toată viața ta, cea mai bună alegere este Rechinul de 12 milioane de dolari — profund edificatoare și captivantă, ca un thriller. The Times Don Thompson a scris de departe cea mai bună carte publicată până acum despre piața de artă contemporană. www.portofolio.com Cartea economistului Don Thompson ar trebui să fie o lectură obligatorie pentru toți colecționarii care vor să-și croiască drum prin lumea licitațiilor de artă contemporană. www.economist.com Revelatoare și amuzantă la fiecare pagină. The New York Sun Rechinul de 12 milioane de dolari este prima carte ce își propune să descrie strategiile de marketing prin care piața de artă generează astfel de prețuri astronomice. Bazându-se pe interviuri cu directori ai caselor de licitație și ai galeriilor de artă, cu artiști și colecționari, cartea lui Thompson descrie uimitoarea lume a artei contemporane, dezvăluind lucruri pe care nu le cunosc nici cumpărătorii de artă experimentați. De ce ar da un bancher newyorkez 12 milioane de dolari pe un rechin conservat în formol? Prin ce proces misterios ajunge celebra lucrare Nr. 5 din 1948 a lui Jackson Pollock să fie vândută cu 140 de milioane de dolari? De ce, spre exemplu, în 2006 s-au stabilit recorduri de vânzări pentru 131 de artiști contemporani, recorduri care au fost cu mult depășite în chiar anul următor? Antrenantă și foarte bine documentată, cartea lui Thompson abordează într-un mod inedit economia și psihologia artei contemporane. Autorul analizează evoluția financiară și autoglorificarea artei contemporane, încercând să stabilească ce anume face ca o lucrare să fie valoroasă, în timp ce altele sunt complet ignorate.

Rechinul de 12 milioane de dolari. Uimitoarea economie a artei contemporane

"Really good. Highly recommended." Andrew Marr, Radio 4: Start the Week From the author of the internationally bestselling The $12 Million Stuffed Shark comes a fresh and provocative look at the high-end art market and whether it is a bubble about to burst. Within forty-eight hours in the autumn of 2014, buyers in the Sotheby’s and Christie’s New York auction houses spent $1.7 billion on contemporary art. Economist and bestselling author Don Thompson cites this and other fascinating examples to explore the sometimes baffling activities of the high-end contemporary art market, examining what is at play in the exchange of vast amounts of money and what nudges buyers, even on the subconscious level, to imbue a creation with such high commercial value. Thompson analyses the behaviours of buyers and sellers and delves into the competitions that define and alter the value of art in today’s international market, from New York to London, Singapore to Beijing. Take heed if your fortunes are tied up in stainless steel balloon dogs – Thompson also warns of a looming bust of the contemporary art price balloon. A fascinating explanation, through the field of behavioural economics, for the phenomena that is behind the incredible value of contemporary art.

Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market

The Orange Balloon Dog

Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson's 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed Shark and offers a further journey of discovery into what the Crash of 2008 did to the art market and the changing methods that the major auction houses and dealerships have implemented since then. It describes what happened to that market after the economic implosion following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and offers insights and art-world tales from dealers, auction houses, and former executives of each, from New York and London to Abu Dhabi and Beijing. It begins with the story of a wax, trophy-style, nude upper-body sculpture of supermodel Stephanie Seymour by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which sold for $2.4 million to New York über-collector and private dealer Jose Mugrabi, and recounts the story of a wooden Brillo box that sold for $722,500. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box looks at the increasing dominance of Christie's, Sotheby's, and a few über dealers; the hundreds of millions of new museums coming up in cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Beijing; the growing importance of the digital art world; and the shrinking role of the mainstream gallery.

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