The Barnes Foundation has a world premiere exhibition from a self-taught French painter who never gave up on his work despite ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Barnes Foundation is hosting a program aimed at helping people with dementia feel connected through art. Instead of art therapy, this is art for fun, for a very special group.

“The Henriot Family” is now undergoing extensive repair and cleaning in the Barnes’ conservation lab, where deputy director of education and interpretation Martha Lucy saw the painting in a new light.

Founded by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Barnes Foundation is an educational and cultural jewel on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Barnes Foundation attracts hundreds of thousands of people each year ...

PHILADELPHIA -- If you're unsure about art, Paulette Rackow can literally walk you through it. She has been a docent at the Barnes Foundation for 13 years. "So now I give tours," says Rackow. "But I ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- How art can help your well-being? That's the focus of a new class that's just starting. This is a new twist on art therapy. In this class, people learn how art can help your ...

In his May 31, 2010, cover article titled “No Museum Left Behind,” Lance Esplund paints a detailed and idealized picture of the Barnes Foundation and adopts wholesale some of the common misconceptions ...

A gallery at the Barnes Foundation at its orginial location in Merion, Pennsylvania (photo by Tim Shaffer via latimes.com) Barnes ordered in his will that his collection, which includes works by ...

Henri Matisse, "The Joy of Life" (1905–6), oil on canvas (photo Judith Stein/Hyperallergic) PHILADELPHIA — Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes is the result of a carpe diem moment for ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The day before her internationally touring exhibition “All About Love” opened at the ...

This book recounts the turbulent history of the Barnes Foundation, outside Philadelphia, which administers a collection of art valued at more than $6-billion. The Pennsylvania nonprofit organization, ...