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The Art of the Steal is a 2009 documentary film directed by Don Argott, about the controversial move of the Barnes Foundation, generally considered to be the world's best collection of post-Impressionist art and valued in 2009 to be worth at least $25 billion, from Merion, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia.
The opposition group, Friends of the Barnes Foundation, says The Art of the Steal revealed that Ott did not have all the evidence in 2006, when he approved the art collection's move. [42] On October 6, 2011, Judge Ott ruled that the Friends of the Barnes Foundation had no legal standing and that there was no new information in the movie. [43] [44]
When the Barnes Foundation was established, Laura Barnes was appointed as vice president of the board of trustees. Following the death of Captain Joseph Lapsley Wilson, she became the director of the Arboretum. In October 1940, she began the Arboretum School of the Barnes Foundation with the University of Pennsylvania botanist John Milton Fogg Jr.
Marie Laurencin’s radical paintings imagined a gauzy, feminine world absent of men, but her intentions have largely been misinterpreted.
In 2005, Rudenstine was invited to join the board of Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation, responsible for the art collections of Albert C. Barnes. Before taking the job, he investigated the collection's history and produced a book published in 2012, The House of Barnes: The Man, the Collection, the Controversy , which received the American ...
The Barnes Foundation and PECO Launch NewArts Education and Outreach Program for Local Middle Schoolers More than 1,000 Philadelphia students to experience world-renowned art collection ...
Collection of the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Pages in category "Collection of the Barnes Foundation" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The controversy over Ryan’s “working class” comments comes amid a viral trend of ignoring celebrities. Ryan’s father, who has since died, was a policeman. Image credits: vancityreynolds.