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William Powhida and Magdalena Sawon use their combined experience to deftly pull apart the art world’s ‘it’ book for the summer: Management of Art Galleries, by ‘art market expert’ Magnus Resch.

When Jeffrey Deitch’s introduction to a book is the most intelligent, sensible, pro-art statement that runs 100% counter to the author’s vision, you know you’re in trouble.
The it-book of summer, we were told, was Management of Art Galleries by the self-proclaimed “art market expert, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author” Magnus Resch. Not only does Resch’s heavily promoted book not contain any secrets about managing an art gallery, it’s not even a book. Magnus’s opus is rather a painfully padded pamphlet with fugue-like repeats of the same data and arguments. So it did not take long to read and annotate all 152 pages of Management of Art Galleries, which are set in large, generously spaced type for the visually impaired, and stuffed with endlessly described “diagrams” for the intellectually slow... Keep reading on Hyperallergic