Think Like an Artist

Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had * Guardian *The Shock of the New redone a la Bill Bryson … richly detailed and highly entertaining * Daily Telegraph on What Are You Looking At? *Hugely accessible … writes about difficult things without letting on that they are difficult * Independent on Sunday on What Are You Looking At? *A romp through art history and the creative mind … full of entertaining anecdote * Guardian *Gompertz doesn’t have it in him to be boring. He clearly loves art too much and his book … succeeds as a short love letter to art. The pictures are wonderful * The Times *

Will Gompertz is a world-leading expert in, and champion of, the arts. Having spent seven years as a Director of the Tate Galleries followed by eleven years as the BBC’s Arts Editor, he is now Artistic Director at the Barbican. Will has interviewed and observed many of the world’s leading artists, actors, writers, musicians, directors and designers. Creativity magazine in New York ranked him as one of the 50 most original thinkers in the world. He is the author of the internationally bestselling What Are You Looking At? and Think Like an Artist, both translated into more than 20 languages.