Even a seasoned art history buff will find new things to discover in this book. - Hyperallergic

Fascinating facts and illuminating anecdotes. - The Art Newspaper

The perfect miscellany for every art lover - an essential and engaging collection of facts, figures, and findings about art, artists, and the art world, past and present

This extraordinary compendium of compelling facts, figures, and findings gathers and distils obscure and fascinating information about art, artists, and the art world. Fun, surprising, and compelling, in this covetable book you will learn:

- which artists work is stolen most often (Picasso)
- names of artists pets: Fat Fat & Cous-Cous (Louise Nevelsons cats), Giotto and Goya (John Baldessaris dogs)
- artist couples (Nancy Rubins and Chris Burden; Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely; Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst)
- things artists collect: prosthetic arms and legs (Sophi