His talent for pharmaceutical chemistry made him rich. His bold taste in paintings created the foundation for America’s most ...

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

Blake Gopnik's book foregrounds the democratic yet complicated ethos underpinning Barnes's involvement in Impressionim and ...

A new biography on the renowned businessman, who amassed one of the most important collections of Modern art in the US, looks ...

Ideas54:00Writer Adam Gopnik on the Evolution of Antisemitism Into Anti-urbanism New Yorker writer and former CBC Massey Lecturer, Adam Gopnik argues that there's a connection between contemporary ...

Gopnik's (Paris to the Moon , for adults) first offering for young readers is ambitious, complex and overly long. Oliver Parker, 11, an American boy in Paris, is vaguely unhappy. His father ...

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 ...

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. He's now ...

When Lillian Ross profiled the celebrated novelist, the world saw ridicule and ruin. But letters between the reporter and her subject reveal something far more complicated. The Canadian Prime ...