Barnes Foundation - Art in Philly -- Albert's Friends... and more kewl THINGs for a Psor person to DO.. (Solar Eclipse + ++++ more things)

[randall]

hi


ido want to do philly....as

ART as LSD of LIFE or xyz of abc?:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is a branch of
philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, with the
creation and appreciation of beauty.[1] It is more scientifically
defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes
called judgments of sentiment and taste.[2] More broadly, scholars in
the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture
and nature.
<snip>


And/OR history of nascent Human Evolutionary Consciousness in the
Context of DNA.

Is Consciousness evolution possible and is it in rare gene's or any
old GENE or genetic exPloitation's of those who are better off...
dread?

What about effects of DRD4 7R alleles over time?

In a primitive hunter gatherer situation wouldn't the DRD4's - 7R's be
more limited then over time
in an evolving society of hoi polloi and liberalisticow's?


How now bROWN clown?

Milking democracy or going for freedom?

Will obama policy let your freedom impluse fly or stomP on it?

And DOES --> Albert Barnes Foundation SuPPorter's agree with the
Decline of american Monuments?

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2012&month=04
April 2012

Michael J. Lewis
Professor of Art
Williams College
The Decline of American Monuments and Memorials
<snip>


More on BARNES below..

First:

=================>>>>


1st a bummer!


We lost another MUSICAL GREAT, ... Robin Gibb went to disco heaven a
day or two after Donna Summer:
http://www.spinner.com/2012/05/20/robin-gibb-dead-dies/?ncid=webmail2


THAT sucks..

We (meaning me + id squid) will miss both of them... very MUCH!


... :(


=================================>>

On the LESS bright Side!

I just finished watching the annular solar eclipse:

it was kewl... but over much faster then i'd expected...


WHILE it KNOCKED my SOCks off and my nephews who watched it with
me.....

May gray was moving in so i expected to see nada, zip, nothing ... but
it came back just
enough to SEE the whole thing (almost) perfectly..

Gloom in the ROOM called your environ!

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/gloom.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Gloom

And i'm like right ON the OCEAN... yikes!

Which in this pic you can see i'm screwed:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Junegloom_16jun2004.gif

Was i worried?

IN spades...LOL

But...

It was A+ OK.....


Like so many other orgasmic experience's i susPect: ?


Is this how chick's feel?

I wonder now?


who wrote the book of eclipse?

Who, who, who?

Book Of Love by The Monotones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIfuNPbBaaA
<time: 2:20>

Without moTown would america have SOUL?

I wonder.... but what is, simPly IS....

the Drifters There Goes my Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3HXy9mGPpI

And white went Black no take BACK:

Dion - Runaround Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jefJpr-3no&feature=related


OK back to my BABY and ...huh?

My sPecial event... LOL

Annlar orgamsic eclair?

No id squid... you dork mork, it's like a solar event... when one
large body
goes in front of another larger MOTHER of a disc that's like 64
Million miles
away... OK?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/20/solar-eclipse-2012-live-updates_n_1531084.html
Solar Eclipse 2012: Live Coverage Of Sunday's Astronomical Event
<snip>

or
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/05/20/solar-eclipse-millions-look-skyward/
or
http://myfox8.com/2012/05/20/solar-eclipse-projects-ring-of-fire/

And if it's an orgasm you want?

Then:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343173/20120520/solar-eclipse-2012-ring-fire.htm

To:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22656968
Recorded live on May 17, 2012 4:24pm PT
Chromosphere 5-17-2012
ColoradoAstronomy
<time: 31 minutes... long..>
<snip>


OK being there is part of that orgasm... i'm thinking....duh..

Were you there for the BIG BANG?


While the stuff of you and i was THERE we don't relate... as we've
become collections of consciousness...

Which somehow is the goal of a universe or groups of them.

But even MORE fun... would have BEEN....going to philly yesterday...

Not for this:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Sandwiches/PhiladelphiaCheeseSteak.JPG

But top that BAD BOY it with... japalenos and who knows... maybe..

I wanted to go for MAN kind... or unkind or HORSE kind:

And i wished to be a FLY on the WALL... or a stick bug...

I saved one, i hope, today, btw.. :)

For me...

Today is continuum DAY...of yesterday and my WISH.. but

If i had my druther's i'd have BEEN in Baltimore for the PREAKNESS,
truth be TOLD.


Why?

i said so?


OK...i know SO..

And i'm a FLaKE so, and so & so in a newsgroup... so that is pretty
pig... LOL

And if all my wishes were fishes... then timespace would collapse?

We can't have that! How can i balance the universe by smoking to much
if you drink to much?

Or is that the balance?

Why?

Let's try to LOOK...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(theory)
Continuum theories or models explain variation as involving a gradual
quantitative transition without abrupt changes or discontinuities. It
can be contrasted with 'categorical' models which propose
qualitatively different states.

In physics
In physics, for example, the space-time continuum model explains space
and time as part of the same continuum rather than as separate
entities. A spectrum in physics (e.g. of light) is often termed either
a 'continuous spectrum' (energy at all wavelengths) or 'discrete
spectrum' (energy at only certain wavelengths).
In contrast, quantum mechanics includes quanta, which are
distinguished from continuous amounts.
<snip>

And if you want continuum meat in your taco... go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(theory)#In_mathematics_and_philosophy


So what is it that mankind does during their nascent evolution in to
fully functional ...

spacetime inhabitents?


We look at those who left a MARK...

Albert Barnes is a good ONE to look at.

After a few days... i was impressed... his dead hand from the GRAVE to
keep his
art far from the maddening PHILLY steak eating crowd, seemingly anti-
EVERY-man, while Barnes was evolving to be a TRANsHumanist?

----

The architects tell their side to comply with Albert's wishes:
http://galleristny.com/2012/05/22/tod-williams-and-billie-tsien/

[...] Architectural Digest: Though the envelope itself is new, you
were asked to replicate the interior setting of the old Barnes
building so that the paintings could be arranged in the salon style
Albert Barnes conceived.

Tod Williams: As architects, we’re often asked to do very specific
things. The hanging [of the paintings] is unusual to our eyes—we’re
not used to seeing such a rich and dense, texturally loaded elevation.
But we really came to appreciate Barnes’s eye and his thinking. Now
that we look at the work being installed, it’s in the same order, but
it’s stronger than it ever was. We’ve certainly adjusted things—the
floor, the lighting, the moldings, the plaster texture—little things
that I think bring the collection back to life.
<snip>

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So why this odd Dichotomy or POWER from BARNES GRAVE, with less then
strict YIN YANG character's to delineate what's what?

Mortmain or simply a PaIN?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortmain

Do you want obama healtcare law to control you if it's wRONG for YOU?

And if he's dead (as in dropped or took a flying leaP or jumP) then
it's stuck on YOUR head as a mortmain or simple PAIN?

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The mortmain people who suPPort BARNES keeping his ART at his digs:
http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2012/05/22/new-barnes-foundation-gets-hilarious-hitler-downfall-meme-treament/
New Barnes Foundation Gets Hilarious Hitler “Downfall” Meme Treament

nice shot of the new GALLERY housing Barnes collection in philly:
http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/files/2012/05/barnesmeme.jpg

The group Friends of the Barnes Foundation — which has tirelessly
protested the displacement of Albert Barnes’s collection from Lower
Merion to Center City Philadelphia, occasionally at great expense —
has been at times conspicuous by its absence during the fanfare
leading up to last week’s opening of the new Barnes Foundation. But
they have voiced their opposition in a new YouTube video (see below),
a Barnes-themed iteration of the ubiquitous Hitler “Downfall” meme —
one that was comically misunderstood by one blogger — which likens the
museum’s move to a Nazi art heist.

In the video, Hitler expresses his desire to steal the art from Lower
Merion. His generals attempt to dissuade him with arguments like, “It
is really awesome how Barnes left it,” to which Hitler responds: “I
like my museum walls like I like my women: White and conservative as
hell!”

barnes downfall final.mov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8wZh_oTOs&feature=player_embedded
<time: 3:50> <453 views.. very funny>

Even though it’s clearly too little too late, Friends of the Barnes
deserve recognition for the funniest art-themed variant on the Hitler
“Downfall” meme to date.
<snip>

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If Barnes is in HEAVEN looking down or up for that matter would he be
GLaD or SAD:

These FOLKs look HAPPY:
http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2012/05/21/hughe-dillon-barnes-opening-gala/
HughE Dillon: Barnes Opening Gala
VIP guest list included Governor Corbett, Mayor Nutter, Brian
Williams, Ed Rendell, Hamiltons, Kimmels and more.

<snip>

Great photo's of classy folks..going to the GALA..


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OK...

When is black white? or the REVERSE?

Or the inverse?

Must be when top is down or in is out or big becomes small?

You See?

And this is ALL epitomized by a MAN evolving through TIME and loving
to pull ALL up to see that view from aBOVE.

A dove of a man... with passion.

The Albert COOMBes-- BARNES Foundation Art collection opened yesterday
in PHILLY.

Albert Barnes who amassed a marvelous collection worth $25 Billion was
NOT your trypicow billionaire transhumanist in training.


Or was he, sorta?

I've heard it said:


The MORE $$$ you have the MORE YOU ... the REAL YOU is to be observed!


Am i saying money ONLY makes you what you are already?

Sorta... a big ass or stupidly socialist ( like obama is momma big GOV
miss molly?) becomes a huge POWER filled jelly Donut as the money
accumulates FROM or to the subject.


While they are blinded to their own reality.. they become fodder to
the masses of jack asses...

and a human parade of such!

so Barnes...the MAN...and humanist..and art lover.. and many other
pseudo NON nyms...


WELL ... LOOK for YOUR self:


Albert C. Barnes - Portrait of a billionaire by Chirico
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Barnes_portrait_by_de_Chirico.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_C._Barnes
Albert Coombs Barnes (January 2, 1872 – July 24, 1951) was an American
chemist and art collector. With the fortune made from the development
of the antiseptic, gonorrhea drug Argyrol, he founded the Barnes
Foundation, an educational institution based on his private collection
of art. It is strongly represented by paintings by Impressionist, Post-
Impressionist and Modernist masters, as well as furniture and crafted
objects. It is located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Barnes was known as an eccentric figure who had a passion for
educating the underprivileged. He created a special relationship with
Lincoln University, a historically black college in the area, and gave
the university a strong role in administration of his foundation. It
selected candidates for four of the five original trustee seats.


[....] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Bonheur_Matisse.jpg
Henri Matisse, Le bonheur de vivre (1905–6), oil on canvas. Barnes
Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania. It was called Fauvist, bringing
Matisse both public derision and notoriety.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse
Joy of life by Matisse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_bonheur_de_vivre


[....] Barnes's collection grew to house 69 Cézannes—more than in all
the museums in Paris—as well as 60 Matisses, 44 Picassos, and an
astonishing 181 Renoirs. The 2,500 items in the collection include
major works by (among others) Rousseau, Modiggliani, Soutine, Seurat,
Degas, and van Gogh. The entire collection is estimated today to be
worth between $20 and $30 billion.[1] Although John D. Rockefeller and
Andrew Carnegie were vastly wealthier than Albert Barnes, the Barnes
Foundation has assets 10 to 20 times greater than either the Carnegie
Corporation or the Rockefeller Corporation.[1]
<snip>


And his knickknacks collection ... complemented his paintings in the
former location.


-----------------which was HERE...

And after looking at this i'd love to see this first and Barnes art
collection SECOND:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboretum_of_the_Barnes_Foundation
The Arboretum of the Barnes Foundation (5 ha / 12 acres) is an
arboretum and site of the Barnes Foundation art gallery, located at
300 North Latch's Lane, Merion, Pennsylvania. The arboretum and
gallery are open to visitors several days a week. A reservation is
required, and an admission fee is charged.

The arboretum was begun in the 1880s by Captain Joseph Lapsley Wilson.
The site was purchased by the Barnes Foundation in 1922, whereupon
Wilson became the arboretum's director and a foundation trustee until
his death in 1928. Over time, the arboretum has expanded its
collection to over 3,000 species/varieties of woody plants, a
herbarium housing 10,000 specimens, and a library of some 2,500
volumes. The arboretum school was established in 1940.

The arboretum contains good collections of Abies, Acer, Aesculus,
Berberis, Cotoneaster, Cornus, crab apples, Euonymus, ornamental
ferns, Ilex, lilac, Lonicera, Magnolia, peony, Picea, Pinus, Quercus,
Rhododendron, Stewartia, Taxus, and Viburnum, as well as notable
specimens of Ginkgo biloba, Cedrus libani, Calocedrus decurrens,
Cunninghamia lanceolata, Sequoia sempervirens, and Metasequoia
glyptostroboides. Other plants of interest include Araucaria araucana,
Aucuba japonica, Davidia involucrata, Equisetum sp., Lagerstroemia
indica, Magnolia grandiflora, Nandina domestica, and Poncirus
trifoliata.

It also contains a formal rose and perennial garden, woodland, lawns,
pond, stream, and a greenhouse (reconstructed in 2002) containing
about 250 varieties of plants.
<snip>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lapsley_Wilson
Joseph Lapsley Wilson (September 17, 1844, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
— April 12, 1928, Merion, Pennsylvania) was an American railroad
executive, author and horticulturalist. A Civil War veteran, he wrote
two histories of Philadelphia's First City Troop.

Son of William Wilson, a merchant, he was educated at West Chester
Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1862 he enlisted in the
Union Army, becoming a member of C Company Grays Reserves. He saw fire
in July 1863 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania (north of Gettysburg). At
discharge, he held the rank of sergeant.

Following the war, he became secretary of the Little Schuylkill
Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company, a division of the Reading
Railroad, which transported anthracite from Northeastern
Pennsylvania's coal region. He worked for the company for 38 years.

Captain Joseph Lapsley Wilson in an 1894 illustration from Harper's
Magazine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1_City_Troop.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Captain_Joseph_Lapsley_Wilson_G289.jpg

In 1867, he was elected to the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry,
the oldest continually-active military unit in the United States. Part
of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, he served as the troop's
captain, 1889-1894, and wrote its centennial history in 1875. Forty
years later, he revised and updated the history: Book of the First
Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, 1774-1914 (1915).[1]

He was a director of the Commercial Bank of Philadelphia, a member of
the Union League of Philadelphia and of the National Republican
League. He advocated for civil rights for Native Americans,[2] and
opposed American imperialism.[3]

In the late 1870s, he bought land in Merion, Pennsylvania, just over
the Philadelphia city line. He built a mansion, "Red Slates", and
turned the grounds into an arboretum, collecting more than 200
specimens of trees. In 1901, he married Caroline Alice Yates.

In 1922, he sold the estate to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, and he and his
wife moved to a smaller house on the property. Barnes demolished the
mansion to build his Art Gallery, but preserved the arboretum. Wilson
served as the arboretum's first director and as a Barnes Foundation
trustee, until his death.[4]

Some of Wilson's trees still survive at the Arboretum of the Barnes
Foundation.

google map of BARNES Foundation Merions Penn. (HOME)
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&cp=44&gs_id=3&xhr=t&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=931&q=300+North+Latch's+Lane,+Merion,+Pennsylvania&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89c6c74e75c9f735:0x47169bed0110463c,300+N+Latchs+Ln,+Merion+Station,+PA+19066&gl=us&ei=FIC2T6DnCITe2QWo2ajRCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA


Albert BARNES good Friends with Pragmatist - humanist (almost
transhumanist?) John Dewey and Bertrand Russell:

http://dewey.pragmatism.org/
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey

Dewey was a pragmatist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

Dewey was in to humans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist_Manifesto

These humanists with their pubic education can suck on my WHO man...
LOL

Are these humanists the dumberest people in the womb via their two
copies of the DRD4 7R alleles?

Most likely!

STILL i'd have been one of them seeing that the time is ripe for being
GAY and all... LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey#On_humanism
Dewey participated with a variety of humanist activities from the
1930s into the 1950s, which included sitting on the advisory board of
Charles Francis Potter's First Humanist Society of New York (1929);
being one of the original 34 signatories of the first Humanist
Manifesto (1933) and being elected an honorary member of the Humanist
Press Association (1936).[29]
His opinion of humanism is best summarised in his own words from an
article titled "What Humanism Means to Me", published in the June 1930
edition of Thinker 2:

"What Humanism means to me is an expansion, not a contraction, of
human life, an expansion in which nature and the science of nature are
made the willing servants of human good." — John Dewey, "What Humanism
Means to Me"[30]
<snip>

As TRANsHUMANISM began about the time BARNES (1950) and Dewey (1952)
died... they might
be considered God FATHERs... no doubt, in my mind.. anyWHEY..

As to buddy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS[1] (18 May
1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician,
mathematician, historian, and social critic.[2] At various points in
his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist,
but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any
profound sense.[3] He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most
prominent aristocratic families in Britain.[4]

Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 20th
century. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy
<snip>


Wow... i'm showing my DRD4 genetic's now..

I'd have loved to hang in the company of DEWEY and Russell... most
likely..

They'd have found my world view at the time... rather dull... LOL

As my nascent psoriatiCOW dna was only a few years AWAY from
blooming... is it compensatory is the question... ?

OK BACK to BR:

[...] along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his friend Ludwig
Wittgenstein, and is widely held to be one of the 20th century's
premier logicians.[2] He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia
Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His
philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of
philosophy."[5] His work has had a considerable influence on logic,
mathematics, set theory, linguistics, computer science (see type
theory and type system), and philosophy, especially philosophy of
language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Russell was a prominent anti-war activist; he championed free trade
and anti-imperialism[6][7] and went to prison for his pacifism during
World War I.[8] Later, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler, then
criticised Stalinist totalitarianism, attacked the United States of
America's involvement in the Vietnam War, and was an outspoken
proponent of nuclear disarmament.[9]

A prolific commentator on religion, Russell—along with others such as
Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche—advanced a "new
school of thought" that Greg Epstein calls "antagonistic atheism",
which was "the view that religion was a thing of the past and ought to
be brought hastily toward a point of declining influence".[10] In 1950
Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in recognition of
his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian
ideals and freedom of thought."[11]
<snip>


How did the Ouroboros or Uroborus of socialism and marxism and
transstupidlyism go so FAR leftweird?

Got me?.... they sure bent over and screwed themselves IMO.

The rectum LIE-zations of ouroBororificow wanna BE's... pride of
intellect in DIE rectal proportion to the inverse of reverse... LOL

Maybe a pi lie group or poop(?), with di or E8 Mathematic's?

Have to Love GARETT LISI as he surfs...duh..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_(mathematics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional_simple_Lie_group#Exceptional_cases

I wish barnes was here right NOW to see this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/E8PetrieFull.svg

meet SURFER and Lie MAN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi

Antony gARRETT Lisi... he's a surf dude:

http://i.thestar.com/images/42/50/eb1bbe4a4a02b77532f0313d5389.jpeg
Physicist Garrett Lisi, who has conquered some of the earth's biggest
waves, says he surfs because "it's the most fun you can have on this
planet."
from
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/758043--surfer-inspires-comparisons-to-albert-einstein
Surfer inspires comparisons to Albert Einstein
<snip>


And...back to the pride filled Uroborus of life:

Instead of a snake eating himself, a man screwing himself?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

And like Lewis Carroll's fictional chesire cat in Wonderland with
Alice and HER RABBIT HOLE, we're left with a catty smile and ....
nothing?

Analogous to a particle with being and NON being at the same TIME:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation

Can there be a smile without the construct or a CAT to do it?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefunction_collapse

And uPon genetiCOW interpretations...

Will the LEFT (WHO) humans after DRD4 allele revelations leave only a
GRIN to socialism-isms?

Or a RECTAL smile?

Farting a haPPy GOOD bye?

And spacetime sucking in suckers to the gravity of nothing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_time


Will this odd schism of thought and SCIENCE keep socialists on a pride
filled religion of THOUGHT (full or LESS) quest?

Your guess is better then.... mime!

Another quest for nothing! On the BLUE dirt ball ...in SPACE/
Time..with transHUMANist in search of being and whoAMi-ISMism's?

Makes one WONDER... or me anywhey!

How come the Golden RULE isn't enough?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rule
[...] The Golden Rule or ethic of reciprocity is a maxim,[2] ethical
code, or morality[3] that essentially states either of the following:

(Positive form): One should treat others as one would like others to
treat oneself.[2]

(Negative/prohibitive form, also called the Silver Rule): One should
not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated.

[...] Jewish Torah: "Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the
LORD."(Leviticus 19:18 —NJPS)[1]
<snip>


OK back to the pretty pictures that MEAN things... about humans and
their cute little
evolution in to transismshcism and pretending to be really eudite and
SMART...

How about... a GIANT... nevermind... i was going to say the emblem of
the democratic party..

but it seemed to fractile or quantile function like or inverse of its
cumulative distribution function (cdf) F.


Or like john dewey and being a modern liberal? Which he was, of
course.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism

Yep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism#Notable_social_liberal_thinkers

There he is... LOL


And here is his friends HUGE collection of paintings for the cOMMON
MAN:

Some xlnt shots (10 to be exact) on this link with Joy of Life,
Matisses ROOM:
http://www.uwishunu.com/2012/05/sneak-peek-an-early-look-inside-the-breathtaking-new-barnes-foundation-opening-this-weekend-on-the-benjamin-franklin-parkway/

This one painting is like what? $100m?
http://www.uwishunu.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/barnes-foundation-philadelphia-new-int2-joy-680uw.jpg


http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/18/barnes-art-collection/
Philadelphia (finally) gets the Barnes art collection

May 18, 2012: 11:29 AM ET

More than 50 years after Dr. Albert Barnes' death, his renowned art
collection finds a lovely new home in Philadelphia, against the wishes
of many of his fans.
By Christopher Tkaczyk

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http://fortunefeatures.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/barnes_foundation_exterior.jpg


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FORTUNE (Philadelphia) -- The Barnes art collection has finally moved.
One of the world's most valuable private collections of art now
resides on a 4.5 acre campus in downtown Philadelphia, against -- it
needs to be said -- the wishes of its founder, the late Dr. Albert C.
Barnes, who had willed it to remain at his home in Lower Merion,
Penn., a suburb six miles from downtown.

The move, nearly 10 years in the making, comes after decades of legal
battles, financial struggles, unethical political maneuvers, and
vociferous protest from art purists, all well documented in the
controversial 2009 film The Art of the Steal. The documentary details
the Barnes Foundation's efforts to dismantle and reinterpret the
Barnes will and the evolution of a private estate into a major public
institution.

Expect some demonstrations when the Foundation opens its doors to the
public this Saturday.

The capital fund for the project topped $200 million, including $150
million for a new environmentally sustainable building on Benjamin
Franklin Parkway, and $50 million for a new endowment. The project was
bankrolled by Comcast, PNC Bank, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the
Annenberg Foundation, as well as taxpayers, in the form of public
funding from both Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia.

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This weekend the opening will be celebrated with a series of galas to
honor those wealthy patrons, corporate donors, and charitable trusts.
That's enough posturing to make the socially-averse Dr. Barnes roll in
his grave.

A chemist, Dr. Barnes was a self-made millionaire who built his
fortune with the gonorrhea drug Argyrol, and in 1912 began a lifelong
pursuit of collecting paintings that he considered to be masterpieces.
Over the next 40 years, he assembled the largest private collection of
Modernist and Post-Impressionist art in the world, including 181 works
by Renoir, 69 by Cezanne, 59 by Matisse, 7 by van Gogh, 46 by Picasso,
18 by Rousseau, and dozens of Old Master paintings by El Greco,
Veronese, Tintoretto, Durer, Rubens and others. The collection also
includes 125 African sculptures, masks, and tools. It is estimated
that the Foundation's holdings of more than 2,500 objects are worth
more than $25 billion.

Before a 1951 car accident ended his life at age 79, Barnes had
explicitly expressed his desire to keep his collection out of the
hands of Philadelphia's Main Line society, with the intention for the
art to remain an educational tool for art students.

The history of Barnes's obsessive control over his art collection is
well documented. In his lifetime he received many requests from
strangers who wanted to see the collection, which he made available
only to select audiences, usually students or artists who would write
for permission to visit the house in Merion. Barnes penned witty
responses, usually invoking a pseudonym to maintain an elusive
presence.

Requests from art critics were categorically denied, usually signed by
Barnes's dog Fidèle with an inked pawprint. In 1939, he (writing in
third person while pretending to be a secretary) responded to auto
baron Walter P. Chrysler: "because he gave strict orders that he is
not to be disturbed during his present strenuous efforts to break the
world's record for goldfish swallowing."

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Barnes' letters are currently on display in the museum in a temporary
exhibition about the physicist's life. The art is on permanent display
exactly as Barnes intended, in a series of galleries meant to recreate
the house in Merion. Catering to the Barnes purists (and theoretically
adhering to Barnes's original sketches), the layout, structure, and
design of the house have been completely replicated in the new
building.

Unfortunately the curators decided to continue Barnes's tradition of
cluttering each wall with too many canvases, often stacking them three
or four high, keeping many paintings much too high for the eyes of any
observer, regardless of their height or interest. This is a collection
that demands attention as well as time. The two and a half hours this
reporter spent with it weren't enough to appreciate the hundreds of
paintings, which are jammed, albeit symmetrically, into 24 rooms.
Barnes was a genius art collector, but he wasn't a very talented
gallerist.

The centerpiece of the collection is Matisse's transcendent
masterpiece "The Joy of Life," which is given a prominent position in
a small gallery on the second floor. At the house in Merion, the
painting was difficult to see because of poor lighting and an awkward
location above a stairway. Now the bright pastels of its pastoral
scene can be viewed up close.

Barnes also collected wrought-iron objects. Spatulas, door handles,
hinges, keyhole coverings and the like are interspersed throughout the
galleries like punctuation, as if to accentuate the frustrating
displays on each wall. A selection of period furniture is also
symmetrically arranged, adding a homey atmosphere that seems out of
place in such a minimalist structure.

The architecture, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, is
commanding, clean, and purposeful. The exteriors are covered with
textured gray and gold limestone, and a shallow moat runs the length
of the building. Visitors walk down a pathway lined with Japanese
maples before crossing a footbridge to the entrance. The interior of
the two-story building is decorated in natural wood tones, and two
tree-filled atriums lend a natural aesthetic to the "garden within a
gallery" theme.

The decision to move the art into a space that replicates the Merion
home makes the endeavor seem superfluous. But there are two main
advantages of the new campus that make the move worthwhile: an
improvement in lighting design (by Paul Marantz) from the collection's
previous home and the accessibility to masses of tourists. A lecture
hall and two state of the art classrooms are artfully hidden within
the wings of the gallery space, and the Foundation's archives and
libraries dedicated to art and horticulture are given ample space for
students.

Barnes's original intent to restrict visitors seems no longer
reasonable, especially since the needs of arts institutions have
vastly changed over the past 60 years. For a museum to survive, it
needs to be seen. Art can't exist in the U.S. without big business or
the private sector today.

It's not possible to know whether Barnes himself would approve of the
new campus in Philadelphia. He probably would've taken issue with the
gift shop in the basement, or the onsite restaurant, or maybe even the
coffee shop.

On Wednesday, a handful of protesters had already gathered outside the
front gates, holding black signs with white lettering that read: "RIP
Donor Intent." Hopefully they'll soon discover causes that have
greater importance.
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http://tahoequarterly.com/2011/05/historic-tall-tales-of-lake-tahoe/


Historic Tall Tales of Lake Tahoe
admin | May 6, 2011 |

From John Muir to Jacques Cousteau, "Tahoe Beneath the Surface" looks
at The Lake's hidden stories.

Bankrupt and blacklisted, a failed 70-year-old British philosopher
named Bertrand Russell once sat stark- naked in his tiny cabin near
the shores of Lake Tahoe, typing out a manuscript titled An Inquiry
into Meaning and Truth. That book would eventually help to reestablish
the writer and philosopher’s career: Ten years later, in 1950, Russell
was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Russell’s story is just one of many transformations that occurred at
Lake Tahoe, making one wonder if Tahoe’s famous nickname, “The Lake of
the Sky,” shouldn’t be changed to “The Lake of Surprise.”

TRANSFORMATIVE TAHOE
The surprising truth is that Lake Tahoe transformed America, not just
once but many times over—from our earliest Ice Age civilizations all
the way forward to the strangely tangled fates of the Kennedys, Frank
Sinatra, Jack Ruby and Marilyn Monroe (all alleged denizens of those
subterranean tunnels hidden just beneath the North Shore’s notorious
Cal-Neva Casino). Somewhere in between the Ice Age and the Rat Pack,
Tahoe helped to conquer California, launch the Republican Party and
save our national forests from destruction.

For newcomers, even the self-enclosed nature of Tahoe’s watershed must
seem surprising. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard tourists
stammer, “You mean all this water doesn’t ever flow to the Pacific?”
They’re not alone. Right up to the 1850s, generations of mapmakers
remained stubbornly convinced that there must be some kind of river
connecting Tahoe to the Pacific.

Eventually, John Fremont, the first white explorer to “dis- cover” The
Lake in 1844, etched these errors into the maps he used to carve out
the official boundaries of the new state of California, accidentally
dividing The Lake: two-thirds in California, one-third in Nevada.
Later still, when Fremont became the Republican Party’s first-ever
candidate for president, long before Lincoln, images of the Tahoe
Sierra were still splashed across the GOP’s campaign posters
nationwide. How much water did Fremont’s mapping error involve? A mind-
numbing 39 trillion gallons of Sierra snowmelt hidden in a slim
frosted granite goblet more than 1,600 feet deep, then hoisted more
than a mile high into skies—a feast fit for the gods; a surprise for
the eyes. That’s enough to fill 312 trillion little plastic pint
bottles of Evian or Perrier—every drop of it just as pure as the stuff
you pay for. Priceless. Yet given a pop quiz, how many Americans would
guess that our nation’s largest single body of water by volume west of
the Mississippi is Lake Tahoe, not the Great Salt Lake? Now there’s a
surprise.

These days, even The Lake’s survival seems surprising—or ought to.
Logged from shoreline to ridgeline in the late 1800s, Tahoe stumbled
into the twentieth century as perhaps the single most systematically
ravaged landscape in all the Wild West. Yet today, Tahoe once again
ranks as one of the world’s premier natural treasures, cherished by
tens of millions of tourists—and celebrated by countless world-class
authors.

Samuel Clemens adopted his pen name, Mark Twain, near Lake Tahoe,
where he also accidently set a forest fire.

LITERARY LEGENDS

Surprisingly, no one thinks of Tahoe as a literary capital—but we
ought to. The list of celebrated authors whose careers were
transformed by Lake Tahoe includes two Nobel Prize winners (John
Steinbeck and Bertrand Russell), America’s best-known humorist (Mark
Twain) and the founder of the American conservation movement (John
Muir). In the twenty-first century, two of our most revered literary
superstars—poet Gary Snyder and novelist Michael Ondaatje—still paint
The Lake in print today.

Here, too, authors’ failures bore fruit: After accidentally burning
down his own priceless stand of Tahoe timber in 1861, Sam Clemens took
a desperate two-bit job as a reporter just to pay his bills—writing
under the unlikely pen name of Mark Twain to help hide his shame.
Today, he remains America’s best-selling author.

Forty years later, enraged by the destruction of Lake Tahoe, John Muir
successfully founded the Sierra Club—but tragically failed to create a
Lake Tahoe National Park. Instead, he left a whole string of national
parks and forests scattered up and down the Sierra Nevada in his wake
(a nearly adequate concession prize).

In 1924, another failed Stanford drop-out moved to Lake Tahoe to write—
of all things!—a pirate novel. Critics hated the book (still do). But
here, John Steinbeck honed his craft as a writer and met his future
wife in a Tahoe fish hatchery— making Tahoe just as much a part of
Steinbeck Country as the Salinas Valley or Monterey Bay.

SPEAKING FRANKLY
Frank Sinatra’s epic battle on The Lake with Hollywood diva Ava
Gardner failed to sink his career. Quite the opposite: Legend has it
that the cat-fighting couple hurled insults (and objects) at each
other until their boat literally ran aground, temporarily throwing
cold water on their curses. Later that night, when Gardner walked out
on him, Sinatra allegedly attempted suicide until she came rushing
back. The result? His second marriage—and “I’m a Fool to Love You,”
the song that literally redefined the aging crooner’s career.

TALL TALES OLD AND NEW
The area is host to an almost bottomless stock of frontier tall tales—
ranging from Tahoe Tessie (kissing-cousin to the Loch Ness Monster) to
the local Washoe Indian tribe’s mythic dragon-eagle, Ong. And don’t
forget our more modern lake legends—like the one alleging that Jacques
Cousteau found fully-clothed Victorian corpses floating deep beneath
the surface back in the 1960s. Sacré bleu—what a monstrous surprise.

Yet who needs tall tales when you have 10,000 years of continuous
human history at Lake Tahoe to comb through? As Mark Twain—the best-
known of Tahoe’s literary lions—once pointed out, “Truth is stranger
than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to
possibilities; Truth isn’t.”

SCIENCE STILL SURPRISES
Scientifically speaking, Tahoe’s future, like its past, remains
predictably unpredictable. It’s a long story. In the late 1990s,
scientists worldwide were shocked to discover mummified human remains
within the wider range of Tahoe’s present-day watershed that dated
back almost 10,000 years—all the way to the end of the last Ice Age.
Soon thereafter, SCUBA-diving scientists discovered 6,000-year-old
fossilized forests hidden deep beneath the present-day surface of The
Lake—evidence of a catastrophic climate change on a scale previously
undreamed of. Well, at least undreamed of until lately.

Surprise, surprise.
So in addition to those familiar bumper stickers emblazoned with the
timeless battle cry to “Keep Tahoe Blue,” how about some new ones that
read “Keep Tahoe True”? Or better yet, “Keep Tahoe Deep”? Or best of
all: “Keep Tahoe Surprising.”
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OR how about, keep Tahoe RICH FOLKs, that way the common MAN can't
screw it UP... LOL

Is this NOT the conundrum that BARNES art faced?

Is it also a disgrace that it was taken DOWNTOWN?


My look see at the google map etc... made me lean towards BARNES...
and i'm a right wing ding a ling...

Whose now leaning LEFT weird...

Which isn't so weird..

We are 98.6% alike... after ALL.

Those sucky dorks like axelDORK only make us think we are not more
ALIKE..


So look at mary maitlan Carville and husband JAMES Carville.

If they LOVE each other... how can we NOT live under that prospect?


Love rules... the rest is... Most likely BS... and power and those who
TRIP with it?


I can hear moooooooooooochele right now?

Fire up the 747 i'm on VACATION... isn't AMERICA GREAT!


Yes it is....

And so we meld... or try... and grow and love and BE.


Do i BE?

I be 24/7... and LOVE you ALL...it's my JOB!


So?

Will i stop the CRAp?

Most likely... i can't be the reverse of the perverse much longer...
LoL


OK?

more shots:
http://www.knightfoundation.org/media/uploads/media_images/bfp_rm23w.jpg
from
http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2012/5/21/inside-barnes-foundations-grand-opening/

Van Gogh's Postman:
http://blogs.ubiqlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/529_600_bf37_i4r1.jpg
from
http://blogs.ubiqlife.com/?p=2218


http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/2012/05/barnes-foundation-opening-new-philly-location/618356
Barnes the MAN in his new HOME
http://washingtonexaminer.com/files/styles/article-main-image/public/fileu1HWso
An oil on canvas portrait by Giorgio de Chirico of Dr. Albert C.
Barnes hangs at The Barnes Foundation Wednesday, May 16, 2012, in
Philadelphia. After years of bitter court fights, the Barnes
Foundation is scheduled to open its doors to the public on May 19 at
its new location on Philadelphia's "museum mile." (AP Photo/Matt
Rourke)



Video (Barnes Totem installation -Ellsworth Kelly) half way down
facebook page with tons of barnes stuff:
https://www.facebook.com/barnesfoundation?rf=108251562532944

pic of the totem:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150684909429475&set=a.10150684909334475.419440.152765724474&type=1&theater

nice shot of a news babe:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150722855629435&set=a.147575234434.107136.95102544434&type=1&theater

odd flower at Barnes Greenhouse:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/251507_10150268623179435_95102544434_7202123_4977274_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/226562_10150189550339435_95102544434_6591408_3249203_n.jpg
magnolia trees at arboreteum
https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/217013_10150162596389435_95102544434_6348286_3767815_n.jpg
red japanese maple
https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/52522_459143389434_95102544434_5149114_6722599_o.jpg
renoir's
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/47775_429766224434_95102544434_4612761_4944047_n.jpg

Jeff Bridges at barnes
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252464_10150206761574435_95102544434_6747991_7528325_n.jpg

Barnes at Barnes
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/30621_401131784434_95102544434_3924199_3330339_n.jpg
“This is the purpose of the foundation – the reconciliation of the
common every day experience of life of the ordinary man to the works
of art which are all of them, without exception, the record of the
experience of an individual who has had greater feeling, greater
insight and greater power of expression than ordinary individuals. By
the communication of the artist’s experience, life itself is thus
enriched.”
-Dr. Barnes, in: Lecture notes, December 14, 1930. Education Records,
Art Education Programs, Curriculum Materials.
Photo: Albert C. Barnes, Angelo Pinto, and Nelle and Mary Mullen in
the Barnes Foundation Gallery, 1932. Photo by Pierre Matisse.
Photograph Collection, Barnes Foundation Archives.
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barnes with a his art:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/30671_400577484434_95102544434_3913713_4082220_n.jpg
.“I am convinced I cannot get too many Renoirs,” Albert Barnes
declared in 1913. Three decades later he had amassed 181 works by the
artist—the largest collection in the world. What was it about Renoir
that Barnes found so fascinating? Where does Renoir fit with the more
subversive artists in the collection, like Matisse, Picasso and
Cézanne, and more generally, what is Renoir’s place in histories of
twentieth-century modernism?
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https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/32071_399168844434_95102544434_3875365_1659905_n.jpg
Dr. Bernard Watson, chairman of the board of the Barnes Foundation,
was an honorary degree recipient and speaker at Moore College of Art &
Design’s 161st Graduation Ceremony on Sunday, May 16 in Aviator Park.




Wow..

I so want to GO there now..

And surf a small wave... in another universe perhaps?



randall.. and being LESS psor is GOOD... as GOOD is GOOD, right?