Randy Kennedy in tomorrow's print edition
of The New York Times—
Art collector Albert C. Barnes "viewed his foundation
less as a museum than as a school."
Roberta Smith in the New York Times
print edition of May 18, 2012, on
art arrangements by Albert C. Barnes—
"Barnes’s arrangements are as eye-opening,
intoxicating and, at times, maddening as ever, maybe more so.
They mix major and minor in relentlessly symmetrical patchworks
that argue at once for the idea of artistic genius and the
pervasiveness of talent. Nearly every room is an exhibition
unto itself— a kind of art wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities…."
This journal at noon on the same day, May 18, 2012—
Balakrishnan's Banners
See also Brightness at Noon from March 25.