As the art world is gradually consumed by a new generation of ambitious artists, art collectors, curators, and gallery owners, the relationship between a work of art’s quality and its price has become difficult to argue. With the rise of social media and new cultural practices, art procurement events have started to become a mere series of soirees for socialites, and everything truly valuable winds up lost in translation. Equal parts art criticism and artist directory, this book supplies us with succinct descriptions and well-chosen samples of these artists’ works as Giorgio Guglielmino answers these important questions:  

Who is going up?
Who is going (inexplicably) down?
Who stands quietly but firmly on the side of the road?
And who is here to stay?