EVERY ART LOVER and his mother-in-law’s brother’s third cousin will be at the Barnes Foundation this weekend looking to get in on its first free fete. But, um, you guys know the art isn’t going to disappear in an Impressionist-style puff of smoke, right?
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Edward J. Sozanski: Transformation of the Barnes Foundation from a school with an art collection to a museum with art classes is finally complete.
Inga Saffron: While there are many moments of breathtaking refinement, the result is sadly a long way from being a successful addition to the city.
When moving the Barnes Foundation to the Parkway was still an idea, some wondered what it would mean to have the Art Museum, Rodin Museum and the Barnes together. Now we know.
On May 19, a stone's throw from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation gallery will open officially for the first time outside the leafy confines of Latchs Lane in Merion.
When the letter arrived in 2007 inviting Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to enter a select competition to design a new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the husband-and-wife architectural team were momentarily stumped.
Albert C. Barnes was trained as a scientist, so it's not surprising that he would apply rigorous empirical discipline to the less categorical activity of collecting art.
The art collection assembled by Albert C. Barnes is a many-splendored thing, but also one shaped by paradox.
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