The Maverick's Museum

“A clear-eyed assessment of a champion of modern art…a comprehensive portrait.” — Kirkus Reviews“Gopnik ably illustrates the story of Barnes’s rise and his collecting, spiriting the reader along as Barnes flits from passion to passion, feud to feud.” — Wall Street Journal”A vivid, engrossing biography.” — New York Times“A vibrant and comprehensive portrait of an influential figure in American art history.” — Publishers Weekly“Charming and fascinating …. The result of Gopnik’s prodigious research is a lavishly illustrated book rich with storylines….the Barnes is, at long last, a public institution. Hundreds of thousands of people now visit annually (this year, I hope, including me). Read the book, and you’ll want to go, too.” — Washington Independent Review of Books

Blake Gopnik, one of North America’s leading art critics, is the author of the comprehensive biography Warhol. He has served as the art and design critic at Newsweek, and as the chief art critic at the Washington Post and Canada’s the Globe and Mail. In 2017, he was a Cullman Center fellow in residence at the New York Public Library, and in 2015 he held a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York. He has a PhD in art history from Oxford University and is a regular contributor to the New York Times.