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 ...
Barnes hopes to transport you to France with Monet, Cézanne, Modigliani, and more
Artists Amedeo Modigliani and Chaïm Soutine, Kang added, moved to Paris in the early 20th century and fled to the south ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Longtime softball pitcher Art Barnes joins Pa. Hall of Fame with Bonnell's
A long career of dominating softball leagues will finally land Meadville native Art Barnes in the hall of fame. Bonnell’s softball team, based out of Erie, was inducted in the Pennsylvania Softball ...
The hot-tempered chemist behind a world-class art collection
That tic and the enmity behind it became famous, threatening to eclipse his brilliance as a scientist, businessman, art collector and educator. But why exactly was Barnes, a millionaire surrounded by ...
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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 ...