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Museum sponsors bus trip to Philly’s Barnes
The Taber Museum is sponsoring a bus trip to The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia on May 3. The Barnes includes artworks of Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Modigliani and so much more.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘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, ...
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Albert Barnes and the new book ‘The Maverick’s Museum’
Blake Gopnik wrote the biography "The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream" about the Philadelphia art collector. The Barnes Foundation opened to the public in Merion 100 years ago ...
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The Man Who Owned 181 Renoirs
Coinciding with the centennial of the Barnes’s opening, we have Blake Gopnik’s breezy new biography of the man, The Maverick’s Museum, and Neil L. Rudenstine’s reissued history of the ...