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Read the following short chapters from Don Thompson's The $12M Stuffed Shark (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2007): Branding and Insecurity; Branded Dealers; the Art of the Dealer; and Art Fairs: the Dealer's Final Frontier. ThompsonChapters.pdf
Read the recent Wall Street Journal article about global art wheeler-dealer Larry Gagosian, "The Larry Gagosian Effect": http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576232791179823226.html
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