{"id":1768,"date":"2010-02-26T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:43:12","slug":"the-new-barnes-triumph-or-travesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"The New Barnes: Triumph or Travesty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/barnes_08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/barnes_08.jpg\" alt=\"barnes_08\" title=\"barnes_08\" width=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been no more contentious subject in the art world over the last decade than the status of the Barnes Foundation, and its decision to forsake its suburban home for a new museum on Philly&#8217;s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The controversy is the subject of a new film by Don Argott, The Art of the Steal, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archpaper.com\/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4288\">I review in the latest issue of the Architect&#8217;s Newspaper<\/a>. I&#8217;m admittedly somewhat agnostic on the fate of the Barnes, though I think Argott is a rather poor man&#8217;s Michael Moore. (Irony, given Barnes&#8217;s wealth.) I think my attitude reflects a general feeling of my peer group in the museum world. When I asked a curator friend what she thought of the situation, her bemused response was: &#8220;Barnes was a mean old bastard and cursed the whole place for all eternity?&#8221; The cursed place will soon have a new home designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien [above]. So, as I write in the story, not exactly a tragic ending.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been no more contentious subject in the art world over the last decade than the status of the Barnes Foundation, and its decision to forsake its suburban home for a new museum on Philly&#8217;s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The controversy is the subject of a new film by Don Argott, The Art of the Steal, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The New Barnes: Triumph or Travesty?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}