Barnes Backers Dead Serious About It

Although the Barnes Foundation is pretty much set to move to Philadelphia — at this rate, I expect it to be in Philly just in time for the tricentennial — those rapscallions at Broad Street Review are still protesting the move.

Nothing wrong with that, of course, but apparently people are writing letters to editor Dan Rottenberg — or stopping him on the street, maybe — saying it’s a done deal so his publication should stop writing about it. Let’s take a look:

Why debate moving the Barnes Foundation? It’s a done deal! But so were slavery, segregation and the Soviet Union, once upon a time.

I expect future columns in the BSR on why the United States should not re-instate slavery. And maybe we can get some sort of “underground railroad” to sneak the Barnes paintings back to the suburbs.

‘It’s a done deal’ [Broad Street Review]