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"Sheer pleasure: the best book I've ever read about contemporary art." - Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag. "Immersive reporting along the lines of George Plimpton or Barbara Ehrenreich with...a gift for clever formulations that recalls Oscar Wilde ... [Get the Picture]could not be more fun. A delightful book on an inspiring topic by a writer who could make dust sparkle." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) . The New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey - this time burrowing deep inside the impassioned, secretive world of art and artists. An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world - and couldn't look away.
About the Author
Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist and the author of Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste.
She's the former executive tech editor of the Huffington Post, where she explored technology's influence on culture through subjects such as teen Vine stars, people who date video games, and the creators of Siri. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, T (the New York Times style magazine) , Food & Wine, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and The New Republic, as well as The New Yorker online. She is the author of the acclaimed academic book Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China. She lives in New York City.
