What Can Business Learn from Art?

In The Work of Art , the former New York magazine editor Adam Moss acknowledges the power of that notion but then deletes it. His book mixes interviews of more than three dozen artists (writers, painters, composers, comedians, designers) with images of their work and, crucially, their work in progress. We see sketches that inform Frank Gehry’s whirly architecture; pages of Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics, well worked over; and even a text message thread in which the music producer Thomas Bartlett solicits collaborators. This is arduous, disheveled, iterative work—as messy as building a business case.