Author: Bianca Bosker Publisher: Atlantic Hardback One of our books of the year 2024! Oliver says: Bianca Bosker is a journalist like no other. After years of a successful career in tech journalism, she quit to dive into the world of wine enthusiasts. Her efforts to understand what the fuss is all about took her to the fanciest New York restaurants, an MRI scan, and to become a certified sommelier. She chronicles this journey in her first book Cork Dork, to which Get the Picture, can be seen as a loose sequel. This time around, Bianca wants to understand Art and the art world: is there really such a thing as Good Taste? Are some people really moved to tears by this, or are they all just full of it? And what is up with contemporary art? In her quest to develop her Eye as an art aficionado, she attends the busiest art fairs, works as a gallery assistant, artist studio manager, and museum guard, and seeks out increasingly strange contemporary art. Acknowledging the greed and cliquiness of the artworld while also exploring the enriching qualities of art and artmaking, Get the Picture is an informative and entertaining book full of unforgettable personalities and crazy anecdotes. I highly recommend this book to art lovers, art sceptics, and art haters. I recommend Bianca Bosker. Her books are tangible arguments for engaging with life with open hearts and minds, and simply fun un-put-down-able non-fiction reads that can be hard to come by.
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