RACC has a brand spanking new website... the old one was oh so 2001.

The Whitney Museum is moving ahead with their expansion near the High Line. I suppose the recession is over, is Chelsea too?

Tyler Green asks the AAMD the tough question about the recent rash of private collector shows in major museums and gets dodged.

Can the Barnes really be improved upon... doesn't look like it. Private art collections create special context for themselves and something IS lost irrevocably by trying to popularize something this important. In the case of the Barnes it's context on a level that has no equal.

As for The Barnes:
Late Again, Late Again, in your reporting
We in Philly Love It!

http://theartblog.org/2009/10/barnes-design-we-love-it/

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20091008_Art_Commission_approves_Barnes_design_concept.html

I took my time because it is dull and an amazing embarrassment to a city that has a rather awesome collection of museums.

If Philly's civic body can't see the problem then it's obvious WHY the Barnes hasn't been saved at its original location.

It's really nothing to gloat about, it is a sad, sad situation... why not move Chinati to Houston or The Lightning Field to Storm King or move Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin East to the top of Tate Modern? The type of context at the Barnes is so rare it should be preserved. Not everything needs to be a city museum, sometimes we should celebrate inconvenience in art rather than its latest palace.