Posts Tagged ‘Barnes Foundation’
March 25, 2013, 12:36 pm
When it opened over 10 months ago at its controversial new home in Philadelphia’s Center City, the Barnes Foundation’s special exhibitions space (pictured) featured the temporary show “Ensemble: Albert C. Barnes and the Experiment in Education,” which offered a thoroughly researched and fascinating look at the life of Albert Barnes, his work in the pharmaceutical industry, and the process of assembling the prescient art collection his successful medicine business enabled him to acquire. That exhibition was slated to run through March 18 of this year, which it did, but its de-installation last week — to make way for the Barnes’s first-ever contemporary art exhibition, devoted to Ellsworth Kelly — was met with consternation from a group named Barnes Watch. (more…)
Tags: Albert Barnes, Barnes Foundation, Barnes Watch, Benjamin Sutton, News
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February 1, 2013, 1:26 pm
One of the most conspicuous features of the new Barnes Foundation in Center City Philadelphia is its gallery space dedicated to presenting temporary exhibitions, which featured a show devoted to the Foundation’s history when the new museum building opened last May. Now the new Barnes is preparing for the first special exhibition in its 91-year history: A show of Ellsworth Kelly wall sculptures. (more…)
Tags: Barnes Foundation, Benjamin Sutton, Ellsworth Kelly, Museum of Modern Art, News
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November 30, 2012, 8:07 am
This spring, the Barnes Foundation opened its controversial new Philadelphia home to largely rave reviews. But ever sensitive to the virulent criticism surrounding the collection’s move from suburban Merion, Pennsylvania, to the new $100 million museum, Barnes representatives always seem to take pains to pay homage to the institution’s opinionated founder, Albert C. Barnes. So it was at yesterday’s press lunch for the upcoming exhibition, “Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture on the Wall,” May 4-September 2, 2013, in which executive director Derek Gillman described the “many similarities” between Kelly and Barnes. (more…)
Tags: Albert Barnes, Barnes Foundation, Ellsworth Kelly, News, Philadelphia, Rachel Corbett
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October 29, 2012, 11:25 am
Hurricane Sandy has put the entire East Coast on alert. While you’re busy filling pots with water and stockpiling canned food, we here at ARTINFO have compiled a handy list of art events that have been cancelled or postponed and art institutions that are closed on account of the apocalyptic weather. (They are organized by the date they were originally scheduled to take place and will be continually updated.) If nothing else, this list should serve as a reminder of how many cultural events take place in New York every day.
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Tags: Barnes Foundation, Christie's, Hurricane Sandy, Julia Halperin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Sotheby's
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June 12, 2012, 4:20 pm
In 1979 the sculptor Hal Jones presented his work to legendary Philadelphia Museum of Art director Anne d’Harnoncourt, only to have her marvel over its packaging and offer him a job as a contractor building crates for the museum. It wasn’t what he was looking for, but he took it, and three decades later his art shipping company Atelier Art Services got one of the most high-profile contracts in American art history: moving the Barnes Foundation’s treasure trove of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art to its controversial new home. (more…)
Tags: Atelier Art Services, Barnes Foundation, Benjamin Sutton, Hal Jones, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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May 22, 2012, 9:43 am
The group Friends of the Barnes Foundation — which has tirelessly protested the displacement of Albert Barnes’s collection from Lower Merion to Center City Philadelphia, occasionally at great expense — has been at times conspicuous by its absence during the fanfare leading up to last week’s opening of the new Barnes Foundation. But they have voiced their opposition in a new YouTube video (see below), a Barnes-themed iteration of the ubiquitous Hitler “Downfall” meme — one that was comically misunderstood by one blogger — which likens the museum’s move to a Nazi art heist. (more…)
Tags: Barnes Foundation, Benjamin Sutton, Friends of the Barnes Foundation, Hitler, Memes, Philadelphia
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May 18, 2012, 11:48 am
With the new Barnes Foundation’s official opening ceremony underway in Center City Philadelphia as of 40 minutes ago, opponents of the displacement of Albert Barnes’s collection from Lower Merion are sure to be out in full force. They were conspicuously absent during Wednesday’s media preview, when a small platoon of sign-bearers was briefly spotted outside the museum’s front gate before vanishing from sight. (more…)
Tags: Barnes Foundation, Benjamin Sutton, Philadelphia, Protests
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April 16, 2012, 5:02 pm
Brett Miller, the general council for the Barnes Foundation, was found dead over the weekend at his home, just weeks before the museum is to open its controversial new building in downtown Philadelphia. The museum confirmed the news to The Art Newspaper this afternoon. No further details are currently available. (more…)
Tags: Barnes Foundation, Brett Miller, Philadelphia
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April 10, 2012, 1:06 pm
The Barnes Foundation’s new home in Center City Philadelphia is making final preparations for its grand opening in just over a month, and the relocated museum has just finished installing the one major new addition to Albert C. Barnes’s storied collection: a 40-foot-tall public sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly. (more…)
Tags: Barnes Foundation, Benjamin Sutton, Ellsworth Kelly, Philadelphia, Public Art
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March 20, 2012, 4:54 pm
The Barnes Foundation has had its share of problems in recent weeks, while it puts the finishing touches on its new building in Center City Philadelphia after moving from its former Lower Merion space, but nothing wins over detractors like free admission — except, perhaps, free donuts. The Barnes announced today that it will waive admission fees for the first ten days when it opens on Ben Franklin Parkway May 19. (more…)
Tags: Barnes Foundation, Benjamin Sutton, Philadelphia
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