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Repository 120: Yinka Shonibare at the Barnes Foundation
Throughout its history the Barnes Foundation has been equal controversy and absolute gem. Albert Barnes, the iconoclast collector, made certain that he swam the opposite current of the art world, while maintaining an incredible and eclectic collection which is now worth over $25 billion dollars. He left no heirs, and his stringent will left very specific directions for the collection, all which the city has taken “into consideration”, and moved to an entirely new address in Philadelphia last year. The…
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