One artist’s cure for New York’s migrant crisis: Javier Téllez, a Venezuelan New Yorker, worked with eight new arrivals from his birthplace to create an art film called “Amerika.” It is screening daily at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances. nyti.ms/4es8ri3

MY FRIDAY PIC is an install shot from Javier Tellez's great new projection at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, in Greenwich Village. I wrote a big piece about it for New York Times Arts : nytimes.com/2024/06/20/art… plus a few more personal thoughts at BlakeGopnik.com

Hey Ross Douthat — writing on ornament and Brutalism … and you seemed to miss detailed reflections on both by a colleague (me!) writing in your own paper!: nytimes.com/2017/10/01/art… and nytimes.com/2017/05/01/sty…

At Armory. There are paintings. sculptures. Photos etc. Otherwise, I have been struck with fair-blindness.

Another huge 293 lots « day auction » Christie's with a quality superior to any fairs I have seen in last years from solid collections like Laure Lee Brown & Steve Wilson, Esposito, de la Cruz at prices that r often a fraction of primary prices. This is the challenge to market

This morning on Marketplace radio, with David , I praised art that escapes the market and went after work that's just there to be sold. marketplace.org/2024/09/24/the…

My New York Times Arts profile of #ThomasSchütte is now online. Not easy to capture the man or his work in words! nytimes.com/2024/09/28/art…

In yesterday's Arts & Leisure section in New York Times Arts , I published a studio visit with Charles Atlas, the oldest emerging artist in Manhattan. Congrats to him on the icaboston retrospective he's about to open. nytimes.com/2024/10/01/art…

So impressed by @CJSprigman at this morning’s Second Circuit appeal, defending Mason Aston and his right to make art about Hermes’s Birkins — as in this video of my Spritmuseum #Warhol show.

So pleased to see this Observer review of my Spritmuseum show in Stockholm, about #Warhol's Business Art, with work from The Andy Warhol Museum , MSCHF , Mason Aston and others. Smartest thing written so far. observer.com/.../review-mon…

The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation is excited to welcome Blake Gopnik to the Parkway Central Library on March 20, 2025. Blake Gopnik will be discussing his book “The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream” with Dr. Alison Boyd.

A New Albert Barnes Biography by Blake Gopnik Portrays a Cantankerous Collector. By Kelly Presutti artnews.com/art-in-america… via Art in America

Join author Blake Gopnik at the Free Library of Philadelphia on March 20 for a talk exploring the life and legacy of Albert Barnes, the maverick who championed art, industry, and social justice. ow.ly/XQ5a50VhIz7

In Blake Gopnik's new bio, the hot-tempered chemist behind a world-class art collection #BarnesFoundation wapo.st/4iUiAWj

Who Really Was Albert Barnes, the Rogue Collector Whose Tastes Shaped U.S. Art? Blake Gopnik, the author of the new biography 'The Maverick's Museum' on the angels and devils in the life of a legend. news.artnet.com/art-world/albe…

"Gopnik’s animated biography chronicles Barnes’s lifelong campaign to make art accessible to the working class." The The New Yorker recommends 'The Maverick's Museum' by past The Cullman Center Fellow Blake Gopnik! newyorker.com/best-books-2025

Ben Shahn’s Social Realist Art Feels Relevant Again in Landmark Survey. An old master of the Great Depression painted a portrait of America as it still may be. By Blake Gopnik #GiftArticle nytimes.com/2025/05/29/art…