A Different Barnes Solution

Many critics don’t want to see the Barnes Collection close its current location and move to Philadelphia. But what if the Barnes could do both? “What if the promised money from the foundations indeed went toward a new Barnes facility in Philadelphia but the original estate remained open and intact? Imagine, instead of a replica installation of the whole collection in an incongruously modern edifice downtown, a new urban Barnes Center that would connect visitors first to the idea of the Barnes and then to the strange jewel of a museum itself.”