It has come down to this: Beth Lillis, 27, project coordinator for the Barnes Foundation, no time for breakfast, an iced coffee barely touched, carrying a cardboard box of light fixtures over the gravel outside the construction trailer and in through the thousand-pound brass-and-glass doors to the first gallery, where, at last, the Brooklyn-fashioned lamps are being hung, to illuminate, among other eye-poppers in their new home, Cezanne's Card Players at their usual table.
»Read story: The fine art of the Barnes Foundation move
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This art should have never been moved in the first place. Barnes had it in his will. STAY OUT OF OTHER PEOPLES BUSINESS!— TS1958- So sick of hearing such ignorance from people like TS1958. What business is it of YOURS that the world will finally have access to many of the major works of the most important artists of the 20th Century? This is the best thing that could have happened to the magnificent collection since Barnes began assembling it a century ago. Boo Hoo - the elitists of Upper Merion, PA can no longer hold the world's greatest collection of Impressionist Art hostage in the sole interest of how it may affect their snobby upper class status and Mainline estate property values. All this based on the eccentric wishes of an anti-establishment rich man who has been dead over 60 years & unable to speak - as I am sure he would - against those who have tried to stand in the way of this most positive effort to advance the mission of his foundation in the 21st Century.— alfalafllo
- alfalafllo, you are dead wrong. It was in the man's will to not move the collection. Why do you believe you have the right to ignore it. How many Access cards do you have?— big geoff
- to big geoff: Barnes would never have allowed his will to remain as it was if he'd lived to see how the Mainline twits who now represent the Art Establishment -which he detested - have so aggressively exerted their elitist privilege as neighbors of bios foundation by trying to hoard the collection to themselves and restrict access to the common people. And what the hell business is it of yours how many Access cards I have? How much of an arrogant jerk are you anyway?— alfalafllo
- It will be interesting to see how many people who have seen the Barnes collection in Merion all their/our lives will pay to see the same collection displayed the same...exceedingly tedious and stupifyingly boring....way on the Parkway.
It will be rewarding to see the new architecture and the landscape, yes, but it is seeing it all with these niggling facts that the legal case to move it is definitely legally flawed, that Lincoln University trustees and administration ought to have been water boarded for their outrageously profligate and irresponsible management of the old Barnes, that the new governor of PA is stuck trying to pay commitments for projects like the new Barnes for which the state did not the money under the other governor, and that the new Barnes is in a dumbfoundingly wrong place on the Parkway to tell the dramatic Philadelphia Story of Albert Barnes versus the establishment and the world, that is still such a raging story. Long live Albert Barnes.— GAC - Does this mean that a last will and testament, whether it concerns a world class art collection or some worthless papers and a cheap guitar, is subject to change because someone doesn't like it? Hmmmmmmm........— Tim Henry
- alfalafllo, you're a moron, you must live in Philadelphia. Dr. Barnes reason for setting it up as he did was so that STUDENTS could have up close and personal access, and they and others would be able to LEARN about this kind of great art. What they did was disgraceful, disgusting and totally $$ oriented. I hope someone does the same to you— intelliwoman
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