Paul Cezanne’s ‘Card Players’ at the Barnes Foundation Insists on its Own Excellence

Blake Gopnik | artnet news | 12th February 2015

Some art critics – notably the late Tom Lubbock – can focus closely on a painting and illuminate its strategems and devices. Blake Gopnik and a fellow art critic are in this mode in front of a Cezanne masterpiece in New York. Start with the five minute video (here) and then read Gopnik’s follow up remarks. “There’s no money on the table, there are no girls, there’s no booze– so where’s the interest?”