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MERION, Pa. — June 5 was "Community Day" at the Barnes Foundation, one of the quirkiest and most important collections of impressionist and postimpressionist art in the world.
Albert C. Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation, was too large a character to be restrained by mortality. He and his ...
The Barnes Collection art gallery, located just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has the largest private collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in America. It has 181 ...
MERION, Pennsylvania (voa) – The Barnes Collection art gallery, located just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has the largest private collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist ...
A movable feast of art 06:41 (CBS News) Priceless paintings are commonplace in the collection of the late Doctor Albert Barnes . . . a collection that returns to public view later this month.For ...
The Barnes Foundation is no longer the greatest art collection you’ll never see. Art aficionados and academics might never stop debating whether Dr. Albert C. Barnes’s jaw-dropping cache ...
After nearly a decade of lawsuits and bitter debate, the world famous Barnes art collection is about to move from its original wooded, suburban setting outside Philadelphia to a bustling boulevard ...
I was glad to see Christopher Knight add his voice to others from coast to coast in trying to save the Barnes Collection from its "saviors" -- otherwise known as the Annenbergs, etc.
Albert Barnes was a masterful art collector who founded a school centered on his priceless art collection. Now the financially troubled Philadelphia foundation that manages the school wants to ...
Trustees of the cash-strapped Barnes Foundation who requested court approval to move the foundation’s multibillion-dollar art collection from an affluent suburb of Philadelphia to the center of ...
Philanthropic organizations offer to help raise $150 million to move the Barnes Foundation's treasured art collection to downtown Philadelphia. Two-thirds of the sum would go toward the move and a ...
"If you're going to leave your paintings somewhere," warns an art expert in "The Art of the Steal," Don Argott's passionate documentary, "don't let there be a politician within 500 ...