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Paula Marincola, the long-serving executive director of the center, also announced that she will be stepping down.
This summer, the Barnes Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia are partnering to present ‘Where I’m From‘, a new exhibition featuring original work by artists from Mural Arts’ Rec Crew program — a job ...
The clouds parted, giving way to sunshine as 75 years of Bryn Mawr graduates lined up along Merion Avenue to proceed into ...
After Barnes’s death, the foundation faced financial challenges ... and conflicts with Merion neighbors worried about crowds. Would Barnes have been happy with the final outcome, an uprooted ...
Matisse and Picasso and initially housed in Merion, Pennsylvania, Albert C. Barnes' art collection is unique. Following Barnes' death in an automobile accident in 1951, its governing foundation ...
Everybody participated." Barnes was very particular about his foundation and collection. Though anyone attending a class at the Merion center would see his priceless paintings, there were no ...
(Peter Crimmins/WHYY) The original Barnes Foundation building in Lower Merion, which the foundation left in 2012 to move to the Parkway in Philadelphia, is now exhibiting art again. St. Joseph’s ...
The Barnes Foundation is hosting a Young Professionals Night on Friday, Nov. 11, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., in celebration of its 100th birthday. The museum first opened in 1922 in Merion ...
Surely after one hundred years the importance of the Barnes Foundation to the cultural life of the nation ... just its centenary but the tenth anniversary of its relocation from Merion to Benjamin ...
When the Barnes Foundation moved its world-famous art collection to Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway in 2012, it left behind 14 acres of natural landscape at its former site in Lower Merion.
The Barnes Foundation has also become more physically accessible in recent years, moving in 2012 from a 12-acre property in Merion, Pennsylvania, to a centrally located downtown facility.
Moving the world-class Barnes Foundation collection five years ago from suburban Merion, Pennsylvania, to Center City Philadelphia, while controversial, is fulfilling his progressive, ahead-of-his ...