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By: John

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.

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By: John

<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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By: 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?

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By: 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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By: 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.

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By: 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...

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By: Jon H

Doh, that’s from 30th street, not market east. Point stands though.

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By: 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...

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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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