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Notes & comments: January 2005.
The Barnes Foundation, RIP
It is last-act time for the Barnes Foundation, the art school that the pharmaceutical magnate Albert C. Barnes founded in the 1920s in Merion, Pennsylvania, a plush suburb of Philadelphia. Last month, Judge Stanley Ott approved a request by the trustees of the Barnes Foundation to move most of the school's $6-billion collection of art to downtown Philadelphia where it could be more effective fodder for tourists. In an editorial on the decision, The New York Times called Judge Ott's decision "an act of judicial common sense." In our view, it was an act of judicial usurpation, the final--or at any rate the latest--indignity for an ...
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