The Barnes Foundation Essay

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Media. The main means of mass communication regarded collectively. It comes in the form of t.v., radio, newspapers, magazines etc. The media has a way of portraying a story in a way that they want it to be seen by audiences. In other words, the media only tells us only what they want us to hear; which, may or may not be the truth or include the entire story. The media is always looking for the next best story and the competition to be the first one on the scene can be intense. A documentary by 9.14 Productions tells the story of a man and his art collection; The Barnes Foundation.

Albert Barnes was born to working class parents in Philadelphia. Barnes grew up working and boxing to pay his own way through Pennsylvania University. After getting …show more content…

Barnes held such a hatred for these politicians and socialites that he hired lawyers to make it extremely clear in his Will that no paintings would be loaned, sold or otherwise disposed of. He referred to the city of Philadelphia as a slum and never wanted any of his art work to contribute to its wealth. After a tragic car crash, Barnes’ worst fear started to come true; his precious collection began to be picked at and people with power attempted skirt around the law in order to gain this collection. The media at this time was reporting about the wealth the paintings could bring Philadelphia. They wanted the public to believe that the city needed to take the paintings from the original house and put them on display in a museum.

News articles began coming out reporting that the precious paintings were going to be ruined because the house was in disrepair with leaks and cracks in the foundation. Richard Glanton, who was caretaker of the collection for a short time took steps to go ahead and move the paintings and have the house repaired and made appropriate for the art collection to come back. Glanton took the art collection around the world to show and make money for the repairs of the Barnes Foundation building. After the repairs were made, the art collection came back home and it was never the

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