All That Glitters : A story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art – Orlando Whitfield

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DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo – by then the most successful dealer of his generation – suddenly disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.

A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.

‘Explosive… the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history’ Guardian
‘Liar’s Poker, but for art’ Economist

‘My favourite book of 2024… A masterclass of a book’ Brandon Taylor
‘An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.’ Patrick Radden Keefe
‘Orlando Whitfield [is a] really good writer with crazy stories to tell’ Hanif Kureishi