Anora was one of the big winners of the awards season this year, with star Mikey Madison walking away with the Best Leading ...

One key example: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, which carry the story of Jesus’ followers forward after his ...

Blake Gopnik recounts how the Albert Barnes Foundation started its collection of modern art via an excerpt from his book, ...

Barnes amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern European artwork—more Cézannes (69) and Renoirs (an ...

Adam Gopnik is one of our most esteemed and well-liked man of letters. Having come to prominence as a writer for *The New Yorker* since 1986 and first and foremost an observer of American life, he ...

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 ...

When he felt that a hail of profanity and slurs didn’t suffice, Albert C. Barnes signed letters to perceived foes with his dog’s name, Fidèle. That tic and the enmity behind it became famous ...

Blake Gopnik’s entertaining biography of Barnes, “The Maverick’s Museum,” does nothing, despite strenuous efforts to find the good in Barnes’s quarrelsome character, to disabuse us ...

Adam Gopnik has been a writer for The New Yorker since 1986. He is the author of the essay collections Paris to the Moon and Through the Children’s Gate, both of which include many of his pieces ...