By: etv13
I’m with Josh G. here. In what sense is Barnes “entitled to it”? For how long? If Barnes has a say, what about Gauguin and Renoir et al? Why aren’t we consulting their putative posthumous opinions?
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I believe that St. Joe’s bought up the old Episcopal High School campus and prevented the Barnes from buying part of it and building a parking lot there. So they helped prevent keeping it in Merion, in...
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What role, if any, did the Catholic Church play in trying to keep the Barnes where it is? The old location was practically on St. Joseph’s campus, and the Archbishop’s mansion is close by. I could see...
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“Overbrook/Merion are twenty minutes from Market East” Walking? Google puts it as 1 hour 40 minutes walking, 40 minutes by public transportation.
View ArticleBy: Bloix
I visited the Barnes as part of a pre-arranged tour group in the 1980’s. It was a curious place – some heart-stoppingly beautiful paintings, many curious artifacts, and more second-rate Renoirs than...
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Murc – why do you believe your reading of Paul’s summary of an agitprop documentary gives you a better sense of the legal and factual issues here than Judge Ott had?
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<a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/museums/20120503_On_May_19__a_stone_s_throw_from__quot_the_House_of_.html?viewAll=y" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is a good article on the...
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And <a href="http://www.law.umaryland.edu/programs/initiatives/arts/documents/Barnes04dec.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a> is Judge Ott's final decision allowing the move.
View ArticleBy: etv13
I’m with Josh G. here. In what sense is Barnes “entitled to it”? For how long? If Barnes has a say, what about Gauguin and Renoir et al? Why aren’t we consulting their putative posthumous opinions?
View ArticleBy: John
I believe that St. Joe’s bought up the old Episcopal High School campus and prevented the Barnes from buying part of it and building a parking lot there. So they helped prevent keeping it in Merion, in...
View ArticleBy: Jon H
What role, if any, did the Catholic Church play in trying to keep the Barnes where it is? The old location was practically on St. Joseph’s campus, and the Archbishop’s mansion is close by. I could see...
View ArticleBy: Jon H
“Overbrook/Merion are twenty minutes from Market East” Walking? Google puts it as 1 hour 40 minutes walking, 40 minutes by public transportation.
View ArticleBy: Bloix
I visited the Barnes as part of a pre-arranged tour group in the 1980′s. It was a curious place – some heart-stoppingly beautiful paintings, many curious artifacts, and more second-rate Renoirs than...
View ArticleBy: John
Murc – why do you believe your reading of Paul’s summary of an agitprop documentary gives you a better sense of the legal and factual issues here than Judge Ott had?
View ArticleBy: Paul Campos
The notion that Barnes created his trust out of “petty spite” does not at all jibe with the facts as presented in the film (and before anybody strokes out again I’m not saying the film constitutes the...
View ArticleBy: Hogan
“we can modify any trust we deem to have been established out of petty spite” The petty spite itself is irrelevant. If the trust includes conditions that make it less able or unable to carry out its...
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