Blake Gopnik, author of 'The Maverick's Museum,' on the contradictory life and legacy of the man behind the world-famous ...

Blake Gopnik wrote the biography "The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream" about the Philadelphia art collector. The Barnes Foundation opened to the public in Merion 100 years ago ...

Of all the ways that today’s plutocrats spend their billions, founding an art museum is one of the more benign, somewhere behind eradicating malaria but ahead of eradicating democracy.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! One of the most acclaimed contemporary artists of the last 30 years is the subject of ...

A long career of dominating softball leagues will finally land Meadville native Art Barnes in the hall of fame. Bonnell’s softball team, based out of Erie, was inducted in the Pennsylvania ...

Zimbabwe's Christy Coventry made history as the first woman and the first person from Africa to chair the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The 41-year-old won 49 out of the possible 97 ...

Mural Arts Philadelphia has created more than 4,000 works for over 41 years − many pieces produced by women, pioneers in a ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Kelvin Sampson has come to expect the late-night phone calls from Rick Barnes. The Houston coach can’t begin to predict Barnes’ reason for calling after decades of picking ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. There’s ...