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 ...
‘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 ...
How the First Vincent van Gogh Piece Was Acquired in the US: Book Excerpt
Blake Gopnik recounts how the Albert Barnes Foundation started its collection of modern art via an excerpt from his book, ...
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 ...
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 Barnes and His American Dream.' ...
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 ...
Scottie Barnes Injury Update Ahead of Sixers-Raptors
Scottie Barnes has been battling a hand injury lately. The Toronto Raptors star reportedly aggravated the injury during the ...
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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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‘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 ...