Get the Picture
By Bianca Bosker
- Genre
- Art, Culture & Creative Life
- Publisher
- Viking (Penguin Random House)
- Publication year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 9780525562207
Get the Picture is a work of immersive journalism by Bianca Bosker, published by Viking in February 2024. Bosker embedded herself in galleries, studios and museums to understand how the art world works and how to look at art. An instant New York Times bestseller, it was a best book of 2024 at...
How do you learn to actually see art? Bianca Bosker, a journalist with no formal training, decided to find out by throwing herself into the contemporary art world - working as a gallery assistant, guarding paintings as a museum attendant, moving in with artists and sleeping in studios. Get the Picture is the funny, self-deprecating, deeply reported result, and it doubles as a crash course in how the art market really works and what looking can do to a person. Bosker is an ideal guide precisely because she starts as an outsider, asking the naive questions insiders have forgotten to. intendle recommends it for anyone intimidated by galleries or curious about the machinery behind them. An instant New York Times bestseller and a best book of 2024 at NPR, TIME and The Economist, it is immersive journalism at its most entertaining. You will leave it wanting to stand in front of a painting far longer than you used to.