In his newest book, The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and his American Dream (Ecco), art critic and biographer Blake Gopnik—formerly a Newsweek reporter—brings Barnes and his collection to ...

Gopnik: I guess I was most surprised by just how important [Albert] Barnes turns out to be in the history of formalist criticism and thought—that is, thought that privileges the look of a ...

Blake Gopnik began his career as an academic, with a doctorate from Oxford, but since 1998 has been chief art critic at the Globe and Mail in Toronto, the Washington Post and Newsweek.

Barnes. Biographer and art critic Blake Gopnik—formerly a Newsweek reporter—delves into the life and influence of the museum's founder in his newest book, The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes ...