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 Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:21 am Post subject: Barnes Foundation controversy building up... |
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From Unbeige in the AW blog center...
Mixed Reactions, but Mostly More Anger, as Design Plans for the New Barnes Foundation are Unveiled
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=44913
| Unbeige wrote: | | If you were to wander into Philadelphia's city limits this week, it's likely that you would have heard the renewed talk over the controversial 2002 decision to relocate the bulk of Albert Barnes' massive art collection, now housed at the famed Barnes Foundation in the suburbs, to a new facility in central Philadelphia. Since all of that was announced, a legal battle has taken place to try and get it stopped, the president of the Foundation resigned in protest, and constant reminders from those against the move that Barnes himself had stated in his will that "the collection be kept 'in exactly the places they are.'" But things have sat still for a few years now, up until this week, when it all reved up again with the release of the proposed designs for the Barnes collection's new home, as crafted by the New York-based architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. In reaction, starchitect and native-Philadelphian Robert Venturi still despises the whole concept of the move and decided to write a usually-very-strange type letter for someone working in his particular field: asking that the state not put the money into building the new museum and put it to better use elsewhere (PDF). Over at the NY Times, resident critic Nicolai Ouroussoff doesn't think it much better, claiming the new building seems designed out of guilt... |
And some basic news coverage...
Philly commission OKs new Barnes Foundation plans
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20091007_ap_phillycommissionoksnewbarnesfoundationplans.html
| The Associated Press wrote: | PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Art Commission has unanimously approved architectural designs for a new Barnes Foundation museum, virtually clearing the way for construction to begin as early as November.
The $200 million museum will house the multibillion-dollar art collection of Dr. Albert Barnes when it comes to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in downtown Philadelphia.
The Barnes is slated to open in 2012.
The huge collection of paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso has been housed in a Paul Cret-designed gallery in Merion since 1925. It is moving from the suburbs after a years-long legal battle to keep it there.
Many opponents of relocating the collection attended Monday's hearing. Public comment was limited to the architectural design and not arguments about the move. |
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