[Don098]

Great posts...and I agree. However, I have to admit, I'm not exactly surprised. I was pretty much expecting a design of this nature; there's a real lack of vision lately. Lots of safe ideas are being proposed for everything, especially in Philadelphia. However, I'd still like to see this museum than get built. I had never even heard of the Barnes museum until this forum, and I'm a pretty plugged-in arts person as a musician with lots of friends in Philadelphia's choral groups, students at Temple and Curtis, etc. I think the exposure is going to go a long way because the arts need financial help, desperately, and if that means watering down the venue to increase people's interest and exposure to dying art, than I'm 100% for it.