Thursday, May 17, 2012
The campus will eventually house a permanent painting collection from Barnes' home and occasional special exhibits.
The Barnes Foundation will continue to use the foundation's Merion campus despite the main collection's move to Philadelphia, Barnes Foundation Executive Director Derek Gillman said Wednesday. The Merion campus arboretum will reopen in late summer 2012, and the collection's old building will eventually house a permanent collection of 40 to 50 paintings Barnes kept in his residence, most recently used as the foundation's administrative building. The foundation's horicultural school and library, the Barnes archives and object conservation will also be housed at the Merion campus. Eventually, the building may also feature occasional special collection exhibitions, according to Gillman. The art collection's move to the Benjamin Franklin …
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Dr. Albert Barnes' world-renowned art collection, located for 90 years in Merion, opens to the public at its new home in Philadelphia on May 19.
The Barnes Foundation and its world-renowned art collection, located, until last July, in Merion Station, will be unveiled to the public on Saturday, May 19 at its new home in Philadelphia. The Barnes Foundation collection—which includes works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and Degas—is estimated to be worth $25 billion. Collector Dr. Albert Barnes created the Barnes Foundation in 1922 as an educational institution, with the philosophy of making art accessible to ordinary people. He requested in the foundation's Indenture of Trust that his collection never be moved or even rearranged. In 2002, the Barnes Foundation announced its intention to move the collection to Philadelphia, citing financial concerns. The Montgomery …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
On Saturday, the Barnes Museum opens to the public at its new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.
After nearly 90 years in Merion Station, Albert Barnes' world-renowned art collection has made its controversial move to Philadelphia, and will be unveiled to the public in its new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Saturday. The collection—which includes works by Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Soutine, Modigliani and Degas, along with some lesser known artists—is estimated to be worth $25 billion. Collector Dr. Albert Barnes created the Barnes Foundation in 1922 as an educational institution, with the philosophy of making art accessible to ordinary people. He requested that his collection never be moved or even rearranged. The Barnes, of course, has moved—and it will be unveiled to the public on Saturday, May 19 in a …
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8:54 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
Agreed...what a mockery of trust. If some punk kid had spray-painted moustaches on the Renoirs, they would be in jail. Annenberg, the Pew, Rendell, Street - they are worse than a small-time vandal. more ›