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

None of that is immediately evident when first stepping into “BOOM: Art and Design of the 1940s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which greets visitors with a 1940 “Patriot Radio” by industrial ...

In “The Maverick’s Museum ... art and objects, and set up a personal foundation dedicated to using the collection to teach “plain people” (not the intellectuals and philistine Philadelphia ...