This book is a non-trivial look at the art world, revealing some of the strangest, funniest and most fascinating stories about great artists and their masterpieces, and a dizzying answer to the question of why art history today continues to be an exciting, relevant and inexhaustible subject for research, from which goosebumps run through the skin. Her author is Jennifer Dazal - curator of contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art and host of the independent podcast ArtCurious, which she started in 2016 and which has been named one of the best arts podcasts in English. Her lectures are popular across America.