The Barnes – Saving It Might Also Kill It

Edward Sozanski considers the Barnes Collection’s desire to move to downtown Philadelphia. The move might improve the art collection’s financial condition, but the Barnes unique character would be destroyed. “The collection might survive the eight-mile trip from Merion to the Parkway intact, but the ineffable spirit of the Barnes, the quality that makes it a special place, will not. That would be a tragedy, pure and simple.”