A Frank Account of an Unequal Art-World Friendship

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Rosa Lyster reviews “All That Glitters,” Orlando Whitfield’s memoir of his fifteen-year friendship with the disgraced art dealer Inigo Philbrick.

“All That Glitters,” Orlando Whitfield’s memoir of his fifteen-year friendship with the disgraced art dealer Inigo Philbrick, gives a momentous relationship its due, with unusual directness. It is an art-world story and a scammer story—in November, 2021, Philbrick pleaded guilty to defrauding clients of more than eighty-six million dollars—but it is also a close and careful examination of a life-altering relationship.

It would be unsurprising , then, if Whitfield were to frame his story with the suggestion that he had known there was something seriously wrong with Philbrick all along.

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