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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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‘The Sense of Beauty’ brings exciting mix of European, Puerto Rican art to Meadows Museum
Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce” runs through June 22 at the Meadows Museum in Dallas.(Guy Rogers III) ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Goya to Impressionism: 'fall in love' with impressionists again
The result is a show to make you "fall in love" with the impressionists and their precursors all over again. Featuring two ...
Jack Vettriano, ‘Singing Butler’ Painter, Dies at 73
Critics largely rejected his work, but when it was last sold in 2004, “The Singing Butler” was the most valuable piece of art ...
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Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective Coming to San Francisco
Wayne Thiebaud, “Cakes & Pies” (1994–95), Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (photo by E. G. Schempf) Wayne Thiebaud, “Betty Jean Thiebaud and Book ...
What I learned on set with Gene Hackman in Baltimore | GUEST COMMENTARY
Stephen Wozniak is an artist, writer and actor based in Los Angeles. He earned a B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art and attended Johns Hopkins University. His website is ...