The hot-tempered chemist behind a world-class art collection
Blake Gopnik’s “The Maverick’s Museum” is a biography of Albert Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation ...
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Art Museums Spend A Median of $82 Per Visitor, But Bigger Isn't Always Better: Report
A new report on spending at art museums says most such institutions spend a median of $82 per visitor, expansions don't ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
A local brewery used art from Philly museums on its cans. They didn’t ask permission and don’t want forgiveness.
The beer, named Letters from Aston IPA, (a nod to The Postman and 2SP’s hometown) is one of two releases so far in the ...
The Man Who Owned 181 Renoirs
Barnes amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern European artwork—more Cézannes (69) and Renoirs (an ...
‘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 ...
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You Don’t Have To See Everything In The Museum
In Seattle last week, I popped briefly into the Frye Art Museum to see a couple of paintings. At home in Philadelphia, I will briefly pop into the Barnes Foundation to see one or two things. It feels ...