Barnes Art Plopped Into Bloated Mausoleum: Lance Esplund
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The creation of the new $150 million Barnes Foundation is the greatest preventable cultural tragedy of our era. And taxpayers footed one third of the bill for this bloated and inferior institution now located in downtown Philadelphia.
In 1922 the medical doctor, chemist and passionate collector Albert Coombs Barnes (1872-1951) created his foundation, a school for the appreciation of art, philosophy and horticulture.