Mostly, Richard Polsky writes entertainingly about the art world in the American vernacular: cash.
i sold Andy Warhol. (too soon) by Richard Polsky. other press, 288 pages, $23.95.
Reviewed by Peter Walsh
“The nature of the art business is that it’s filled with pettiness and jealousy…” complains art dealer Richard Polsky early in his new [...]

By Bill Marx
Sigmund Freud sets out a weirdly Brobdingnagian survival scenario for kids. Young children rely on their parents, dependent on the intimidating bounty and emotional whims of “adult” giants who could easily dish out too much smothering love or unconscious hostility.
Novelist Peter Stephan Jungk weaves a playfully tragicomic variation on this primal generational [...]