A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Brilliant.” —The Washington Post

“Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe . . . [in this] gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world.” —Time

The bestselling author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—this time burrowing deep inside the 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. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favorite colors and art fiends who max out credit cards to show hunks of metal they think can change the world, Bosker grew fixated on understanding why art matters and how she—or any of us—could engage with it more deeply.

In Get the Picture, Bosker plunges into a yearslong, rollicking adventure of intensive research and immersive reporting: She stretches canvases until her fingers bleed, talks her way into A-list parties with billionaire collectors, gets her face sat on by a performance artist, and stares at pieces for hours on end as a museum security guard. Probing everything from cave paintings to Instagram, from the science of sight to the importance of beauty, Get the Picture both pulls back the curtain on a highly cloistered billion-dollar industry, and celebrates art’s power to lead us to a more expansive existence.

Story Locale:New York, NY