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 ...

But he did buy seven of the artist’s paintings, which are now shown in his Philadelphia museum—including two risqué ones ...

The renowned collection of Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso paintings at the Barnes Foundation was built on a silver protein solution, packaged in a tiny glass bottle and used to protect newborn infants ...

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 ...

"If you're going to leave your paintings somewhere," warns an art expert in "The Art of the Steal," Don Argott's passionate documentary, "don't let there be a politician within 500 yards." Argott's ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...