Member Profile: The Barnes Foundation

The Barnes Foundation is a non-profit cultural and educational institution that shares its unparalleled art collection with the public, organizes special exhibitions, and presents programming that fosters new ways of thinking about human creativity. The Barnes collection is displayed in ensembles that integrate art and objects from across cultures and time periods, overturning traditional hierarchies and revealing universal elements of human expression. Home to one of the world’s finest collections of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modern paintings—including the largest groups of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne in existence—the Barnes brings together renowned masterworks by such artists as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and Vincent van Gogh, alongside ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and non-Western art as well as metalwork, furniture, and decorative art.
 
Opening on November 17 is Kiefer Rodin. Organized in collaboration with the Musée Rodin in Paris, this exhibition gathers new works by contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and masterworks by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The exhibition opening party for Kiefer Rodin is on Friday, November 17, 6-9pm.

For more information, visit www.barnesfoundation.org.
 
Image credit: The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (looking southeast) © 2012 The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tom Crane & Benjamin Riley.