Friends Lecture: Get the Picture

Bianca Bosker is obsessed with obsession. It’s inspired her award-winning stories for outlets like The New Yorker and The Atlantic, as well as her New York Times bestseller, Cork Dork, which traces her journey from tech reporter to sommelier. In dynamic talks, she speaks to why we fixate on products and experiences, and how, by engaging with all five senses and cultivating our appreciation of beauty—a mindset she calls sensefulness—we can both enrich our lives and inspire the same passion in others.

Her latest book, Get the Picture, an instant New York Times bestseller, is part user guide to the hidden logic of the art world and part quest into how to live more beautifully. She chronicles the years she spent “disowning” her normal life as a journalist to sell art at galleries, help artists in their studios, patrol museum wings as a security guard, and more. It’s a powerful journey to understanding why art matters, how we can engage with it more deeply, and how to ultimately live our lives more beautifully.

An astute observer of culture and cutting-edge trends—and a contributing writer at ​The Atlantic​—Bosker has traveled the country leading talks and tastings that probe the nature of obsession and the advantages of reconnecting with our senses. Now, she speaks to the myriad of ways we can enhance our connection to the world around us through actively and deliberately engaging with it: with the people that surround us, the environment at our fingertips, and the events that are shaping our society.

Friends members may call Visitor Experience at 612-870-6323 on November 15 to secure lecture tickets before they’re available to the public. Tickets for Mia members and the public are available on November 17.