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The New York Times running a story about the plans to move the strange - and financially troubled - Barnes collection to Philadelphia's Parkway. I visited the Barnes Foundation in snooty Lower Merion PA this summer and it was an amazing experience. Barnes amassed a large collection of early twentieth century art - including Picassos, Matissesses, and Cezannes - as well as work from earlier eras, and crammed them inside his house. Art sits edge-to-edge from floor to ceiling, and its difficult to isolate individual works. "This is the kind of wall that drives museum curators bonkers" Barnes instructor Barton Church tells The Times. Considering how difficult it is to see the collection, I think moving it to downtown Philly would be a good thing, but it is kind of weird to break Barnes' will.