Barnes Foundation Sets 2012 Opening Date for New Building

In case you missed it, late last week a date for next year has been announced for the opening of the new home of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Controversial from the start, which was heightened considerably after the popular film The Art of the Steal was released, documenting founder Albert Barnes‘ original wishes not to have his staggeringly large and important art collection moved from its home in suburban Merion, PA and then its ultimate undoing, with the bulk of the museum being picked up and moved into a flashy new Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects-designed building in Philadelphia proper.