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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Who Really Was Albert Barnes, the Rogue Collector Whose Tastes Shaped U.S. Art?
Blake Gopnik, author of 'The Maverick's Museum,' on the contradictory life and legacy of the man behind the world-famous ...
What it could mean to abandon the government's huge art collection
Art has a way of disappearing. Paintings are fragile, photographs fade, and even work made from durable stone and metal requires maintenance and care. But sometimes it just vanishes: off walls, out of ...
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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‘Blade Runner’ Designer Syd Mead’s Sci-Fi Art Gets Major New York Outing
Syd Mead, the industrial designer and concept artist behind sci-fi films from "Blade Runner" to "Tron," gets his first major ...
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Art: Kitchen Sink School
Time & Tide’s critic noted that Artist Middleditch’s current exhibit at London’s Beaux Arts Gallery “seems ... U.S.’s own turn-of-thecentury Ashcan School. Middleditch’s own orbit ...
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Reflections on Progress: 100 Years of the New York Society of Women Artists
In a historic tribute, three major art institutions ... Bernstein was part of the Ashcan School, a movement during the late 19th and early 20th century that was devoted to scenes of everyday ...
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Art: Romantics at Milwaukee
Trapped in the cheerful, chilly Boston of the transcendentalists, the wellsprings of his art running dry ... as a leading practitioner of the Ashcan School, was on vacation from realism in ...