MERION, Pennsylvania (voa) – The Barnes Collection art gallery, located just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has the largest private collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in ...

Albert C. Barnes, c. 1920–25 (image via the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication) The quality and quantity of art at Philadelphia’s Barnes ...

Late last year, a judge ruled that the Barnes Foundation could relocate its $25 billion art collection from suburban Merion, Pa., where it had been situated for the last 80 years, to downtown ...

In “The Maverick’s Museum,” Blake Gopnik presents the contradictory, intriguing, infuriating man behind the Barnes Collection. By Janny Scott A judge allowed the Philadelphia institution to lend ...

A gallery at the Barnes Foundation at its orginial location in Merion, Pennsylvania (photo by Tim Shaffer via latimes.com) Barnes ordered in his will that his collection, which includes works by ...

Because there was a heavier than usual influx last week of art stories that needed fast attention I postponed comment on the design for the new home of the much-fought-over Barnes Foundation in ...

“This has been a journey, and we’re not completely finished yet,” Philadelphia’s then-Mayor, John Street, said at a press conference in September 2007. He was discussing construction of a new building ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. He founded a school at the Barnes Foundation, and this school has played a greater role in the life of art in ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Cultural power brokers here have rallied behind a bold plan to move the world-famous Barnes collection of art from its suburban galleries to new space downtown. Rich with works by ...