Barnes Strides Toward The Future

The way seems clear for the Barnes Collection to move to Philadelphia and have a shot at becoming self-sustaining. But still, some “critics worry that the groundwork is being laid for a new ‘MacBarnes’, a user-friendly museum/mall of gift shops and computer nooks designed to maximise the number of visitors. For now, the Barnes’s petition retains Albert C. Barnes’s ban on lending or selling works from the collection but critics warn that this might be reconsidered in the future if expansion plans collapse.”