Founded by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Barnes Foundation is an educational and cultural jewel on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Barnes Foundation attracts hundreds of thousands of people each year ...

90 years ago Albert Barnes collected 239 pieces of Pueblo and Diné (Navajo) artwork. They have never taken center stage until now. During trips to the American Southwest with his wife, Albert Barnes ...

Among the glories of the Barnes Foundation, in Philadelphia, is an astonishing group of 71 works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). The stellar selection of paintings, watercolors, prints and a drawing ...

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 ...

The Barnes Revises Attributions of Old Masters A review of the vast collection and archives of the Barnes Foundation is upending attributions of some of its old master paintings and revealing new ...

After a half-century of misguided intentions, a will interpreted every which way, deteriorating infrastructure, neighbors wanting it gone then wanting it back again, and outrage over the thought that ...

“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 ...

In his May 31, 2010, cover article titled “No Museum Left Behind,” Lance Esplund paints a detailed and idealized picture of the Barnes Foundation and adopts wholesale some of the common misconceptions ...

A judge allowed the Philadelphia institution to lend paintings from the storied collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes. It will look and behave a lot more like a global museum. By Ted Loos Isaac Julien’s ...

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 ...