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With a total stake of about £40,000, the Turner is a small market that is often swayed by “friends and family betting.”

As we forged along, the band made an art out of asking for help—from our housemates, from our friends, from our fans, from our family, from anybody who’d give it.

social group. Their diverse, generally figurative artistic output shared an ability to trigger media “scandals.”

Popularity isn’t proof. What “everybody knows” has been so obviously wrong so many times that I don’t need to fill this book with evidence of it.

Harry Kellar was also badly fooled when he saw it in the summer of 1901. He was America's greatest magician, a rough-and-tumble showman. He'd been born Heinrich Keller in 1848 in Erie, Pennsylvania. As a boy, Harry worked as a drugstore clerk, a newsboy, and custodian for the Erie Railroad before he ended up in Buffalo, New York and responded to a

the art world, gossip is never idle. It is a vital form of market intelligence.

“You seem to be the idol of… a crawling swarm of small souls,” Mark Twain wrote in an open letter to Vanderbilt, “who… sing of your unimportant private habits and sayings and doings, as if your millions gave them dignity”

Big Stores could take in as much as $100,000 at a time—a huge sum back then. Top practitioners became famous, like Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil. “I have never cheated any honest men, only rascals,” Weil once told the writer Saul Bellow. “They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.”