Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

波斯克再次臥底出擊，零距離觀察當代藝術圈


滲透並成為其中一員，《葡萄酒宅神》作者波斯克研究報導對象方式別具風格。
此次，她的對象是藝術。
她進入業界核心，從事畫廊實習生、藝術經紀、策展人等第一線工作，直擊畫廊老闆、收藏家、策展人和藝術家等文化菁英如何修築城河、據地為王。
在華麗的冒險中，她勇於叩問「這怎麼是藝術？」，探討藝術如何影響文化、經濟和心靈，也漸得藝術的況味。

“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. 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 throws herself into the nerve center of art and the people who live for it: gallerists, collectors, curators, and, of course, artists themselves—the kind who work multiple jobs to afford their studios while scrabbling to get eyes on their art. As she stretches canvases until her fingers blister, talks her way into A-list parties full of billionaire collectors, has her face sat on by a nearly-naked performance artist, and forces herself to stare at a single sculpture for hours on end while working as a museum security guard, she discovers not only the inner workings of the art-canonization machine but also a more expansive way of living.

Probing everything from cave paintings to Instagram, and from the science of sight to the importance of beauty as it examines art’s role in our culture, our economy, and our hearts, Get the Picture is a rollicking adventure that will change the way you see forever.