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.
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 of Pound’s notion.
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 ...