Billionaire art lover Albert Barnes was brilliant in business. He was also ‘emotionally, socially incredibly stupid.’
Art critic Blake Gopnik spent hundreds of hours immersed in Barnes’s archives. The result is 'The Maverick’s Museum: Albert ...
‘The Maverick’s Museum’ Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting
His talent for pharmaceutical chemistry made him rich. His bold taste in paintings created the foundation for America’s most ...
A Vivid, Engrossing Biography of an Art-World Contrarian
In “The Maverick’s Museum,” Blake Gopnik presents the contradictory, intriguing, infuriating man behind the Barnes Collection ...
Q&A: Albert Barnes' Biographer, Blake Gopnik, on the Importance of Museums
Art critic and biographer Blake Gopnik explores the intriguing history of the Barnes Foundation in an interview with Newsweek ...
In a New Exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Cecily Brown Takes the Long View
While hanging Cecily Brown’s new exhibition, the curators at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia noticed that Brown, the ...
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‘He could be grotesquely, wildly intemperate’: biographer Blake Gopnik tells us about the great collector Albert C. Barnes
A new biography on the renowned businessman, who amassed one of the most important collections of Modern art in the US, looks ...
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Cecily Brown On Revisiting History, Subverting the Gaze and Embracing the Accident
The artist’s mid-career retrospective at the Barnes Foundation is a testament to her relentless confrontation of the history ...
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Artist Cecily Brown’s first exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philly is a 30-year retrospective
One of the most acclaimed contemporary artists of the last 30 years is the subject of a touring exhibition that has landed at the Barnes Foundation . “ Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations ” is the ...
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Barnes & Noble Widow to Auction $250 Million Art Collection
By Zachary Small For decades, a small but mighty painting by the artist Piet Mondrian has greeted visitors in the grand vestibule of the Park Avenue apartment where the Barnes & Noble founder ...