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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.

Books by Will Gompertz

What Are You Looking At?

For the sceptics, the art lovers, and the five million of us who visit the Tate every year - the funniest, liveliest and most accessible history of modern art ever written, by the BBC Arts Editor

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Think Like an Artist

Embrace your inner Picasso - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei

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See What You're Missing

The internationally bestselling author 'offers a tidy lesson in not just getting more from art, but more from life itself' The Times

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