John Anderson wonders if the Pew Charitable Trust’s recent change in legal foundation status is a positive thing for the Barnes Collection. “If indeed under its new identity the Pew can control the Barnes’s purse strings, it will put a whole new complexion on the proposed plan should it be approved by the court. It makes it look less like the ‘rescue’ it has been portrayed as and more like the “takeover” critics (such as myself) have called it. For in controlling the money, the Pew would have de facto control over the Barnes Foundation itself, with a powerful role in determining the future character and direction of the Barnes.”