May 18, 2012
The long-awaited opening of the newest addition to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is finally here. The Barnes Foundation’s brand new Philadelphia campus opens its doors to the public tomorrow, May 19, with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony today. Tomorrow evening sees a grand gala inside the Barnes that’s sold out; but remember, the Barnes is hosting [...]
Read more»May 16, 2012
In celebration of the Barnes Foundation opening this weekend, CSA gallery, located just a few blocks from the Barnes’ new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, presents The Same As It Ever Was, a weekend-long exhibition featuring works by the Philadelphia Artist Edge Collective. The title and exhibited works in the show celebrate the 30-year [...]
Read more»May 16, 2012
With the long-awaited opening of the new Barnes Foundation on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway just three days away, we’ve been spotlighting a few select artworks from the Barnes collection leading up to the museum’s grand opening. Our first spotlight was “Models” By Georges Seurat; next was “The Postman” by Vincent van Gogh. Today’s featured artwork [...]
Read more»May 16, 2012
One of the new Barnes Foundation Philadelphia campus’ principal features is a 5,000-square-foot space dedicated to special exhibitions outside of the foundation’s vast art collection. And the inaugural special exhibition in this beautiful new space will, appropriately, spotlight Dr. Albert C. Barnes himself, specifically one of his own most principal features. Barnes was known not [...]
Read more»May 15, 2012
This January, we announced the creation of a brand new citywide arts inititiave called With Art Philadelphia™, the city’s first-ever coordinated and sustained visual arts marketing campaign. At a milestone moment for Philadelphia art, with the opening of the brand new Barnes Foundation, making the Benjamin Franklin Parkway one of the most culturally rich stretches [...]
Read more»May 15, 2012
When the new Barnes Foundation opens to the public on May 19, 2012 — this Saturday (!!) — the world’s largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings — including 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 59 Matisses, 46 Picassos and 7 Van Goghs — will join the already amazingly robust museum district along the Benjamin [...]
Read more»May 14, 2012
Every weekend in Philadelphia is fun-packed from your first sip at Friday happy hour to your last glimpse of Sunday sunshine the evening before real life begins again with the work or school week. But this weekend, May 18-20, is truly monumental, with some of the season’s — even the year’s — most anticipated openings [...]
Read more»May 10, 2012
In celebration of the Barnes Opening, the Woodmere Art Museum presents a special exhibition featuring the work of Salvatore Pinto, who was part of a Philadelphia-based family of artists that Dr. Barnes favored and collected. Opening this Saturday, May 12, Salvatore Pinto: A Retrospective Celebrating the Barnes Legacy offers a comprehensive view of the work [...]
Read more»May 9, 2012
With the long-awaited opening of the new Barnes Foundation on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway just ten days away (May 19!), we’re spotlighting a few select artworks from the unparalleled collection leading up to the museum’s opening. Our first spotlight was “Models” By Georges Seurat. Today we’re highlighting “The Postman” by Vincent van Gogh, a very [...]
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