Philadelphia’s Reopened Barnes Foundation Puts Its Masterpieces in a Better Light
Philadelphia Freedom
After years of lawsuits and controversy, the great collection has made its move downtown from the suburbs. As before, stunning modern paintings sit next to folk art and ironmongery, the way tycoon Albert C. Barnes had intended. Art critic Blake Gopnik says it all looks as good as could be. Plus, see a gallery of highlights from the Barnes collection.
Albert C. Barnes, Philadelphia’s Argyrol King, was a crabby tycoon whose peculiar, sometimes noxious ideas about art have been pretty much irrelevant since the day he died, in 1951.
