Will Skills Of Barnes’ New Leader Attract The Needed Millions?

With Derek Gillman plucked from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to become executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation, Edward J. Sozanski wonders how the new leader will handle a project that “promises to be several orders of magnitude more demanding than anything Gillman has tackled so far.” His primary task? Raising “the several hundred million dollars the foundation needs to underwrite a radical transformation from school and domestically scaled gallery to international tourist attraction” as the collection is relocated to Philadelphia.