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September 25, 2002

 Free Reads -- Barnes Foundation

Friedrich --

What in the world is really going on at the Barnes Foundation (website here)? The great art collection, left in 1951 by Dr. Albert C. Barnes to be housed (and very quirkily displayed) in his mansion outside Philadelphia, is in bad financial trouble, and there's now talk of breaking Barnes' will in order to merge the Foundation with several others.

Things have been bizarre in Barnes-land before. Dr. Barnes specified that the collection was never to tour, for instance, or to be displayed in color reproductions -- yet a large part of it was put on tour in 1993, accompanied by a color catalogue.

No matter how bad the place's financial situation, these repeated violations of Barnes' will have got to be giving pause to anyone who wants to leave behind an art collection.

Ralph Blumenthal writes about the mess for the NYTimes here. Roger Kimball gives a more opinionated view for the WSJ here.

Best,

Michael

posted by Michael at September 25, 2002




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