My Warhol bio has been published, and I post my latest Warhol findings at https://xitter.cf/t.co/k0s2QCczpX. My art Pics are at https://xitter.cf/t.co/F9PLI9jX9K. I contribute to the NY Times.
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For once, the two Strict Critics of StrictlyCritical.Substack.co… agree (mostly) about Teresa Margolles's moving @MoMAPS1 show of "political" (ie, world-relevant) art — although Christian notes that it's missing her soap bubbles made from corpse-water.
A detail from a bronze statue of David by Giovanni di Stefano now in “Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450-1500,” at The Frick Collection. In my @nytimesarts review, I tried to give the backstory for why bronzes gave us a rear-view on their subjects. nytimes.com/.../design/frick…
Image says it all.
Our Beauty talk is cancelled, because thunderstorms have kept us in New York.
Hope to reschedule for the fall...
Image says it all.
Our Beauty talk is cancelled, because thunderstorms have kept us in New York.
Hope to reschedule for the fall...
My good luck to have written today's @nytimesarts appreciation of Yayoi Kusama, whose death at 97 was announced last night. Still can't decide if her dotty "infection" of our entire commercial culture was a great art work. nytimes.com/.../yayoi-kusama…
Tonight at 7, hear why beauty is, a) the most important concept in art and morals, or b) a useless, incoherent distraction. Not in Tampa? Get a paid subscription to the Strictly Critical substack (you know you've wanted one) and watch the livestream. strictlycritical.substack.co…
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Ben Shahn’s Social Realist Art Feels Relevant Again in Landmark Survey. An old master of the Great Depression painted a portrait of America as it still may be. By @BlakeGopnik #GiftArticle nytimes.com/2025/05/29/arts/…
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"Gopnik’s animated biography chronicles Barnes’s lifelong campaign to make art accessible to the working class."
The @NewYorker recommends 'The Maverick's Museum' by past @CullmanNYPL Fellow Blake Gopnik! newyorker.com/best-books-202…
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Who Really Was Albert Barnes, the Rogue Collector Whose Tastes Shaped U.S. Art? @BlakeGopnik, the author of the new biography 'The Maverick's Museum' on the angels and devils in the life of a legend. news.artnet.com/art-world/al…
A New Albert Barnes Biography by @BlakeGopnik Portrays a Cantankerous Collector. By Kelly Presutti artnews.com/art-in-america/a… via @artinamerica
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In @BlakeGopnik's new bio, the hot-tempered chemist behind a world-class art collection #BarnesFoundation wapo.st/4iUiAWj
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A New Albert Barnes Biography by @BlakeGopnik Portrays a Cantankerous Collector. By Kelly Presutti artnews.com/art-in-america/a… via @artinamerica
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Join author @BlakeGopnik at the @FreeLibrary on March 20 for a talk exploring the life and legacy of Albert Barnes, the maverick who championed art, industry, and social justice.
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The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation is excited to welcome Blake Gopnik to the Parkway Central Library on March 20, 2025. Blake Gopnik will be discussing his book “The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream” with Dr. Alison Boyd.
So pleased to see this @observer review of my @Spritmuseum show in Stockholm, about #Warhol's Business Art, with work from @TheWarholMuseum , @mschf , @MasonRothschild and others. Smartest thing written so far.
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So impressed by @CJSprigman at this morning’s Second Circuit appeal, defending @MasonRothschild and his right to make art about Hermes’s Birkins — as in this video of my @Spritmuseum #Warhol show.
In yesterday's Arts & Leisure section in @nytimesarts , I published a studio visit with Charles Atlas, the oldest emerging artist in Manhattan. Congrats to him on the @icaboston retrospective he's about to open. nytimes.com/2024/10/01/arts/…
My @nytimesarts profile of #ThomasSchütte is now online. Not easy to capture the man or his work in words! nytimes.com/2024/09/28/arts/…
This morning on @Marketplace radio, with @DavidBrancaccio , I praised art that escapes the market and went after work that's just there to be sold. marketplace.org/2024/09/24/t…
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Another huge 293 lots « day auction » @ChristiesInc with a quality superior to any fairs I have seen in last years from solid collections like Laure Lee Brown & Steve Wilson, Esposito, de la Cruz at prices that r often a fraction of primary prices. This is the challenge to market
