The Art Dealer's Apprentice tells the story of how the author moved to New York in 1989 as a young Midwesterner, found a job at an Upper East Side gallery, and became the prot g of Carla Panicali, an Italian countess and major international art world figure. From Carla - an extraordinary woman whom he deeply admired - the author learned to navigate the treacherous waters of authenticity, power and money in the art business and his own life...