The Barnes Foundation Presents Isaac Julian: Once Again (Statues Never Die), June 19 – September 4, 2022

Philadelphia, PA —This summer, in celebration of its Centennial, the Barnes Foundation will debut a newly commissioned film installation by artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, CBE RA (b. London, 1960). On view in the Roberts Gallery from June 19 through September 4, Once Again (Statues Never Die), a five-screen installation, explores the close relationship of Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Barnes Foundation founder who was an early US collector and exhibitor of African material culture, and Alain Locke, a cultural theorist known as the Father of the Harlem Renaissance.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Initiative, Comcast NBCUniversal, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is made possible by Agnes Gund, Emily and Mike Cavanagh, Marjorie Ogilvie and Miller Parker, Brenda A. and Larry D. Thompson, Darrell and Melenese Ford, and Ronald Blaylock.

Once Again (Statues Never Die) stars actor André Holland (Moonlight and Passing) as Alain Locke, Danny Huston (Succession and Marlowe) as Dr. Barnes, rising star Devon Terrell as sculptor Richmond Barthé, and Sharlene Whyte (Small Axe and Lessons of the Hour) as the curator. It also features a special appearance by singer and songwriter Alice Smith.

“This project explores Dr. Barnes’s and Alain Locke’s storied relationship, its mutually formative critical dialogue, and its significant impact on their work as cultural critics, educators, organizers, and activists on behalf of various African American causes,” says Julien.

Once Again (Statues Never Die) examines the significant and often neglected place of African objects in numerous collections of western art museums. Utilizing poetic reparation and historical archives—drawing on Julien’s extensive research in the archives of the Barnes Foundation—the film explores the impact of Locke’s political philosophy and cultural organizing activities on Dr. Barnes’s pioneering art collecting and his democratic, inclusive educational enterprise. Additionally, it looks at contemporary debates around statues with recourse to the 1953 film by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, Les statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die). Combining the original script written by Isaac Julien and Martina Klich with recently discovered archival footage from the 1970 film You Hide Me by Nii Kwate Owoo about the African sculptures in the British Museum, the film engages with the current critical debates on African art collecting and repatriation of the sculptures.

Exploring Locke’s engagement with the Barnes collection, Isaac Julien aims both to honor Locke’s important contribution to the arts and to open critical conversations regarding the African art works that influenced the Black cultural movement. The installation spotlights Dr. Barnes’s subsequent writings on the meaning and value of African material culture and its import to the African diaspora, which were reproduced in such Harlem Renaissance periodicals as Opportunity. In the film, Julien revisits some of the themes he approached in his landmark 1989 film Looking for Langston and continues his exploration of the queer subculture of the Harlem Renaissance by exploring the relationship between Locke and sculptor Richmond Barthé with a staging of Barthé’s sculptures at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). A selection of Barthé’s sculptures will also be presented in the Barnes exhibition.

“A visionary collector and pioneering educator, Dr. Barnes was also an advocate for the civil rights of African Americans, women, and the economically marginalized,” says Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President and exhibition curator. “Committed to racial equality and social justice decades before the advent of the civil rights movement, he established a scholarship program to support young Black artists, musicians, and writers—including Locke’s associates such as poet Gwendolyn Bennett and artist Aaron Douglas—who sought to further their education at the Foundation and beyond. It is this important and lesser-known chapter of the Barnes Foundation’s history that Isaac Julien—with his distinguished career as a maker of deeply compelling and thoughtful video installations, his sustained commitment to investigating African diasporic politics and culture, and his abiding interest in the Harlem Renaissance—is bringing to light.”

Following its debut at the Barnes, Once Again (Statues Never Die) will be presented during the Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present in the United Arab Emirates in March 2023.

The Barnes has engaged cultural partners across Philadelphia, including The Fabric Workshop and Museum; Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; and BlackStar Projects to present other works by Isaac Julien during the run of Isaac Julien: Once Again (Statues Never Die) and beyond. Related programming is listed below. Visit the website for more details.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum In Focus: Isaac Julien August 16, 2022–April 2023 On view in the First Floor Gallery, In Focus: Isaac Julien presents a selection of works from the museum's permanent collection displayed in conversation with Julien’s Paradise (Omeros) #2, a photographic multiple created for The Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2002.

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania Poetic Cinema: Isaac Julien and the Sankofa Film and Video Collective Curated by Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Live Arts at the Annenberg Center, and BlackStar Projects. A programmatic series of three works, developed in concert with artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, from the Sankofa Film and Video Collective screened in-person at Penn Live Arts at the Annenberg Center and the Prince Theater. Each screening will be accompanied by a conversation between a scholar and artist or filmmaker providing context and building on the works presented.

Looking for Langston (1989, 45 min) June 13, 2022 Prince Theater Guest speakers in conversation: Isaac Julien, artist and filmmaker; Kaja Silverman, Katherine Stein Sachs CW'69 and Keith L. Sachs W'67 Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania; and Ja'Tovia Gary, artist and filmmaker.

Territories (1984, 25 min) and Who Killed Colin Roach (1983, 35 min) July 11, 2022 Prince Theater Guest speakers in conversation: Maori Karmael Holmes, CEO & Artistic Director of BlackStar Projects & Thomas Allen Harris, Senior Lecturer, African American Studies & Film and Media Studies, Yale University.

The Passion of Remembrance (1986, 80 min), newly restored and premiering as a 4K version August 3, 2022 In conjunction with the BlackStar Film Festival. Zellerbach Theater, Penn Live Arts, Annenberg Center Guest speakers in conversation: Karen Alexander, writer, educator and freelance curator & Louis Massiah, documentary filmmaker and Founder/Director of Scribe Video Center.

BARNES RELATD PROGRAMMING:
Barnes on the Block Sunday, June 19, 4–8:30 pm Presented by PNC Arts Alive, and in partnership with Mural Arts Philadelphia, Barnes on the Block returns for another round of outdoor fun for the entire family. This year’s event coincides with Juneteenth, Father’s Day, and the opening of Isaac Julien: Once Again (Statues Never Die). Meet us on the Parkway for visual art displays, live performances, food trucks, a beer garden, and more.

First Friday! Friday, July 1, 6–9 pm

PECO Free First Sunday Family Day Sunday, July 3, 10am–5 pm

Exhibition Tours Thursday–Monday, beginning in June 1 pm

Education Initiatives
Online Class: Understanding Video Art Instructor: Matthew C. Feliz, Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College July (dates will be listed on website) Explore key works of video art and learn about the theories behind them. This is a four-week class that takes place online.

Workshop: Isaac Julien In Focus Instructor: TK Smith, curator and writer Tuesday, August 2, 10 am–4 pm This one-day workshop, at the Barnes, explores key works in Julien’s oeuvre leading up to Once Again (Statues Never Die). Students will have access to the exhibition.

Community Engagement
Barnes West Barnes Presents! Harlem Renaissance in Review August 18, 5:30 pm Jazz performance at Saunders Park in West Philadelphia featuring classic Harlem Renaissance standards.

EXHIBITION ORGANIZATION
Created and directed by Isaac Julien, and co-written with Martina Klich, Once Again (Statues Never Die) is commissioned by the Barnes Foundation and the Ford Foundation, with additional support from the Sharjah Art Foundation, Linda Pace Foundation, Carol Weinbaum & The University of California, Santa Cruz. This exhibition is presented at the Barnes Foundation and curated by Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President. Advisors to the project are Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum; Jeffrey C. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke and MacArthur Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara; curator, filmmaker, and writer Mark Nash; and Chika Okeke-Agulu, a Nigerian-born artist and scholar based in Princeton, New Jersey. The work is executive produced by Mark Nash and produced by Andrew Fierberg.

ABOUT ISAAC JULIEN
Isaac Julien, CBE RA (b. London, 1960), is a filmmaker and installation artist who currently lives and works between London and California. His multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a poetic and unique visual language. His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled Looking for Langston garnered Julien a cult following, while his 1991 debut feature Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Julien has participated in the Venice Biennale; the Gwangju Biennial, South Korea; Prospect 1, New Orleans; Performa 07, New York; and documenta 11, Kassel. His work is held in significant collections around the world. Julien has taught extensively, holding posts such as Chair of Global Art at University of the Arts London (2014–2016) and Professor of Media Art at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany (2008–2016). He is the recipient of the James Robert Brudner ’83 Memorial Prize and Lectures at Yale University (2016). Most recently he received the Charles Wollaston Award (2017), for most distinguished work at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and in 2018 he was made a Royal Academician. Julien was awarded the title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s birthday honors, 2017. In 2022, he was awarded the prestigious Goslarer Kaiserring Award.

Isaac Julien is Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of California Santa Cruz, where he leads the Isaac Julien Lab together with critic and curator, Mark Nash. The Isaac Julien Lab was designed to mirror the Isaac Julien Studio in London and is a platform where students learn about the strategies behind the production of moving images, photographic works, exhibitions and publications. The Lab aims to create innovative pedagogical methodologies, visual and sonic languages for production, exhibition and installation while examining the various aspects that concern contemporary artists and curators working in the field of media art and moving image, in relationship to current modes of research, development, exhibition, production and scenography of moving image artworks.

Sean Scully: The Shape Of Ideas Now Open At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Through July 31st.

Encounter the poetic sensibility and technical virtuosity of one of the leading abstract artists of our time. Sean Scully’s arresting paintings and works on paper, presented here in a comprehensive fifty-year retrospective, explore his signature stripes and reflect the artist’s bold experimentation with scale and composition. From the intimate to the monumental, the works on view stir the spirit and reveal Scully’s tireless dedication to the expressive power of painting.

About the Artist

Sean Scully (born Dublin, Ireland, 1945) works in the mediums of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and photography. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Harkness Fellowship. He has been nominated twice for the Turner Prize.

Scully’s works are in a number of private and public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, among others.

In 2015 Scully participated in the Venice Biennale with his solo exhibition Land Sea at the Palazzo Falier. For the 2019 Biennale, the artist presented Human, a solo exhibition at the historic Basilica of San Giorgio. He currently splits his time living and working in New York and the Bavarian countryside of Munich.

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Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation: Landmark New Publication Dedicated To One Of The World’s Largest And Most Significant Cézanne Collections

Philadelphia, PA—The Barnes Foundation announces Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation, the first publication dedicated to its expansive collection of works by the renowned artist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)—one of the largest and most significant in the world.

Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation is made possible through the generous support of Acquavella Galleries, Inc, John Alchin and Hal Marryatt, Edward and Gwen Asplundh, Lois and Julian Brodsky, Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation, Katherine Sachs, Joan Thalheimer, Margaret and Tom Whitford, The Honorable Constance H. Williams and Dr. Sankey V. Williams, Robert N. Wilson and Michele Plante, and other individual donors.

Co-published and distributed by Rizzoli Electa and edited by André Dombrowski, Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th-Century European Art at the University of Pennsylvania; Nancy Ireson, Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions & Gund Family Chief Curator at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; and Sylvie Patry, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Collections at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, this landmark 432-page volume catalogues the 69 works by Cézanne in the Barnes collection, which include 61 oil paintings and eight works on paper.

“The Barnes is home to the largest single group of Cézanne’s paintings in the world, an impressive collection that spans every stage of the artist’s career,” says Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President. “During Dr. Barnes’s lifetime, access to the collection was limited and the works in the galleries went understudied. In keeping with our commitment to advancing scholarship about the collection, we have prioritized the examination of our holdings through a variety of research initiatives. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation is the next in a series of major volumes dedicated to our collection, following our books on African art, Matisse, and Renoir. This catalogue is born of many years of research, examination, and collaboration with colleagues around the world, and we are thrilled to share this long-awaited book with audiences everywhere.”

“Dr. Barnes felt a strong affinity for Cézanne’s work and collected it voraciously from 1912, the year that artist William Glackens helped him to purchase works that formed the basis of his collection,” says Nancy Ireson. “With deeply insightful contributions from preeminent conservators and art historians, this volume will serve as a key resource for everyone from students to researchers to art lovers for generations to come. We have dedicated it to the late Joe Rishel, our great friend and colleague, in recognition of his lasting impact on Cézanne studies in Philadelphia and beyond.”

Dr. Albert C. Barnes began collecting works by Cézanne from major art dealers in Paris including Paul Durand-Ruel and raised appreciation of the artist in the United States. The Barnes Foundation’s extensive Cézanne holdings—never before published in their entirety—span every period of the artist’s career and include his largest rendition of The Card Players (1890–1892) and one of three versions of The Large Bathers (1895–1906).

The Large Bathers in the Barnes collection, which Dr. Barnes acquired in 1933, now emerges as perhaps the earliest of his monumental Bather paintings (the other two are housed in the National Gallery, London, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, respectively). The technical examination of this painting and others in the collection was made possible by a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project in 2018–19. The findings of this study as presented in the catalogue greatly enhance our understanding of Cézanne’s materials and working methods.

This landmark publication features more than 400 illustrations and includes contributions by Carol Armstrong, Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Barbara Buckley, John Elderfield, Cindy Kang, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Nancy Locke, Martha Lucy, Jennifer Mass, Christopher Riopelle, Joseph J. Rishel, Fabienne Ruppen, Anya Shutova, and Jane Warman.

Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation is the sixth volume in a series of books that chronicle the Barnes collection’s holdings. Other publications include: American Paintings and Works on Paper in the Barnes Foundation (2010), by Richard J. Wattenmaker; Masterworks of the Barnes Foundation (2012), by Judith F. Dolkart and Martha Lucy; Renoir in the Barnes Foundation (2012), by John House and Martha Lucy; African Art in the Barnes Foundation (2015), by Christa Clarke; and the three-volume, award-winning Matisse in the Barnes Foundation (2016), including essays by Yve-Alain Bois, Barbara Buckley, Karen Butler, Claudine Grammont, and Jennifer Mass.

Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation is now available in the Barnes Shop.

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Title: Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation

Publish Date: October 19, 2021

Format: Hardcover

Category: Art - Individual Artists - Monographs

Publisher: Rizzoli Electa

Trim Size: 10 x 11-1/2

Pages: 432

US Price: $85.00

CDN Price: $115.00

ISBN: 978-0-8478-6488-1

"Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror" At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art, September 29-February 13th.

Few artists have shaped the contemporary artistic landscape like Jasper Johns. With a body of work spanning seventy years, and a roster of iconic images that have imprinted themselves on the public’s consciousness, Johns at ninety-one is still creating extraordinary artworks. This vast, unprecedented retrospective—simultaneously staged at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York—features a stunning array of the artist’s most celebrated paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints as well as many lesser-known and recent works. Each a self-contained exhibition, the two related halves mirror one another and provide rare insight into the working process of one of the greatest artists of our time.

About the Artist

Since the early 1950s, Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) has produced a radical and varied body of work distinguished by constant reinvention. In his twenties, Johns created his now-canonical Flag (1954–55), which radically challenged the dominance of Abstract Expressionism by integrating abstraction and representation through its direct, though painterly, deadpan visual power. His works have continued to pose similar paradoxes—between cognition and perception, image and object, painting and sculpture—and have explored new approaches to abstraction and figuration that have opened new perspectives for several generations of younger artists. Over the course of his career, he has tirelessly pursued an innovative body of work that includes painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, books, and the design of sets and costumes for the stage.

Organizers

This exhibition is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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The Barnes Foundation Presents Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel; September 26, 2021 Through January 9, 2022

This is the first exhibition dedicated to the French artist and model Suzanne Valadon at a major US arts institution. The first self-taught woman to exhibit at the Salon de la Sociéte Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Valadon challenged behavioral codes with her art and lifestyle, breaking new ground with her unapologetic portraits and nudes. On view in the Barnes’s Roberts Gallery from September 26, 2021 through January 9, 2022, this exhibition considers Valadon’s rich contribution to the early 20th-century art world and features representative works from all stages of her career.

From a childhood marked by poverty and neglect to a career as a popular artist’s model, Suzanne Valadon (born Marie-Clémentine Valadon, 1865–1938) defied the odds to become a successful painter. Passionate about art from an early age, she modeled in her teens for artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Edgar Degas encouraged her earliest artistic efforts, praising the use of line in her drawings and introducing her to printmaking techniques. Later, when she turned to painting, she exhibited her work regularly at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne. Valadon made a living from her art at a time when women faced countless obstacles to professional success, but despite these accomplishments, her work has received scant attention outside of France.

Curated by Nancy Ireson, the Barnes Foundation’s Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions & Gund Family Chief Curator, the exhibition features 54 works, including paintings, drawings, and prints created between 1890 and 1937. The exhibition is structured around a series of themes, including the artist’s representations of her family and her exploration of the female body. Refusing to follow artistic trends and continuously faithful to figurative representation, Valadon developed a distinctive pictorial language characterized by decisive lines and bold coloration.

CATALOGUE

The exhibition is accompanied by a 160-page catalogue edited by Nancy Ireson, which explores the new ways of looking at Valadon presented in the show. Published by the Barnes Foundation in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, London, the fully illustrated book includes contributions by Ireson, Martha Lucy, Denise Murrell, Adrienne L. Childs, Lauren Jimerson, and Ebonie Pollock that tackle the artist’s treatment of the female figure, her navigation of the art world, and her depictions of an as-yet-unidentified Black model. Additionally, an essay by South African artist Lisa Brice reflects on her interest in the painter, finding resonance between Valadon’s pioneering work and contemporary artists and events, and a chronology by Marianne Le Morvan presents a fascinating overview of the artist’s turbulent life.

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Explore The Magnificent Philadelphia Museum Of Art From Home

 

 

Elizabeth Catlett
During her lifetime, Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) achieved international fame for her powerful explorations of race, class, and her own African American female identity. As a young woman, she studied art in the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s. At that time, art with a social message was highly relevant, and the US government supported public art through the Works Progress Administration and other programs. Learn more about Catlett's work in our online exhibition.

 

 

Coloring the Collection

 

 

 

Grab your crayons, markers, or colored pencils and download these coloring pages that feature works from the collection.

 

 

 

Talks
Hear from artists and scholars as they tackle hot topics.

 

Performances
Revisit past performances or re-create Friday Nights at home.

 

 

 

 

 

Explore the Collection

Notable for both its range and quality, our collection of arms and armor is a visitor favorite. Explore these works from home on our website.

 

 

 

Arms & Armor Book
Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Through our exceptional collection, this book looks at arms and armor as art—from warfare to war games, from hunting to the pursuit of glory.

 

 

 

Interview with ​Dirk Breiding
Associate Curator of Arms and Armor

From display choices to how Star Wars and Game of Thrones have piqued interest in armor, read an interview with Dirk H. Breiding, our J. J. Medveckis Associate Curator of Arms and Armor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The safety and well-being of our community is the highest priority as we respond to COVID-19. All of the museum buildings are temporarily closed to the public. Any changes and updates will be announced on our website, by email, and through social media.

 

 

For more information on the exhibitions and programs listed here, including generous donors, please visit our website.

 

Sharecropper (detail), 1952, by Elizabeth Catlett (Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund, 1999-135-1) © Catlett Mora Family Trust/licensed by VAGA, New York. Armor, around 1505, made by Matthes Deutsch, and Horse Armor, 1507, made by Wilhelm von Worms the Elder (Gift of Athena and Nicholas Karabots and The Karabots Foundation, 2009-117-1,2).

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The Barnes Foundation To Reopen On July 25 With Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread From Miro Ton Man Ray, Extended Through August 23rd.

 

Member Days: July 23 & 24, 10 am–7 pm, and July 25, 10 am–noon
New health and safety measures for staff and visitors
Spring exhibition extended through August 23

Philadelphia, PA.—The Barnes Foundation has announced it will reopen to the public on Saturday, July 25, at noon, following member days on Thursday, July 23, Friday, July 24, and the morning of Saturday, July 25, with extended hours each day, and new health and safety protocols for staff and visitors. The Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray exhibition, which opened less than three weeks before the Barnes closed on March 13, has been extended through August 23.

“During the past few uncharted and challenging months, the relevance of museums, as spaces that naturally offer respite, rejuvenation, and educational enrichment, has come into sharper focus,” says Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President. “Our planning for reopening has been thorough, involving many conversations with staff, elected officials, medical professionals, and colleagues at cultural institutions across the city and state, and around the world. We have reimagined every aspect of our operations to prioritize and protect the health and well-being of our staff and visitors, and to ensure a comfortable experience that allows for meaningful and enriching encounters with art. Art possesses the power to transport us and to help us heal. It is with deep gratitude and hope for the future that we reopen our doors and welcome back our treasured community.”   

The Barnes Foundation’s opening schedule is listed below:

MEMBER DAYS:

• Thursday, July 23: 10 am–7 pm
• Friday, July 24: 10 am–7 pm
• Saturday, July 25: 10 am–noon

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:

• Saturday, July 25: noon–7 pm 
• Sunday, July 26: 11 am–5 pm (10–11 am members-only)
• Monday, July 27: 11 am–5 pm (10–11 am members-only)

After its initial opening days, the Barnes will be open Friday–Monday, with its regular hours of 11 am–5 pm, with 10–11 am reserved for members. Please refer to our website for the most up-to-date information regarding hours. Members can reserve tickets online or by phone as of noon on Monday, July 6, and the general public can purchase tickets online or by phone (215.278.7200) as of 10 am on Wednesday, July 8.

To ensure the safety and well-being of its staff and visitors, the Barnes has introduced new health and safety protocols and changes to on-site operations, including: 

• Staff and visitors will be required to wear a mask/face covering and visit a safety checkpoint before entering the building.
   
• Advance reservations will be encouraged to facilitate contactless ticketing and payment.
   
• The number of visitors in the building will be limited, with timed ticketing to help facilitate social distancing.
   
• A one-way flow through the Barnes collection, Roberts Gallery, and some other areas will ensure calm and crowd-free pathways.
   
• Staff and visitors will be expected to practice social distancing.
   
• Rigorous cleaning protocols have been implemented, with all public spaces and surfaces cleaned and disinfected throughout the day, and hand-sanitizing stations have been installed throughout the building.
   
• Plexiglass partitions have been installed at the ticketing desks (to be located at the Guest Services Center on 20th Street, between the Parkway and Callowhill Street), coat check, the Barnes Shop, and the Garden Restaurant, where grab-and-go food and beverages will be available for purchase.
   
• Guided tours will be limited, but visitors are encouraged to enjoy the Art Team’s pop-up talks about the collection and Barnes history and use Barnes Focus—our free mobile guide—to learn more about the collection during their visit on their personal phones.
   
• On-site public programs—such as First Friday and Artist Bash—have been temporarily paused until further notice; however, online offerings, such as the Barnes Takeout: Your Daily Serving of Art YouTube video series, will continue and can be found on our website under Barnes from Home and What’s On.

Full details regarding our new health and safety protocols can be found on our website.

“When we closed our doors on March 13, our major spring exhibition Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray had been on view for less than three weeks,” says Nancy Ireson, Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions & Gund Family Chief Curator. “We are delighted to extend this first major presentation dedicated to Cuttoli, the trailblazing entrepreneur who breathed new life into the tradition of French tapestry and helped redefine what modern art could be in the 20th century, through the summer. We look forward to welcoming our visitors back inside the galleries to experience, firsthand, the unparalleled joys of the Barnes collection and all this remarkable exhibition has to offer.”

Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray
Extended Through August 23, 2020
On view in the Roberts Gallery

Groundbreaking entrepreneur Marie Cuttoli (1879–1973) befriended and collected modern artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Joan Miró. Living between France and Algeria, she combined her love of Parisian modernism with her passion for the weaving traditions of North Africa by commissioning textile designs from European artists for manufacture in Algeria. As her enterprise flourished and received international acclaim, Cuttoli turned her attention to the exclusive art of tapestry. She persuaded some of the most renowned artists of her time to create designs for the historic tapestry workshops in Aubusson, France, bringing the French tapestry industry into the modern era and contemporary art into mainstream life. Under Cuttoli’s stewardship, designs by artists from Miró to Man Ray appeared in domestic interiors and corporate offices in major cities in the US and Europe.

Curated by associate curator Cindy Kang and presented in the Roberts Gallery, this exhibition traces Marie Cuttoli’s pioneering career and features large-scale tapestries and paintings, drawings, photographs, clothing, rugs, and archival material. Spanning the 1920s through 1950s, the exhibition includes works by Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Le Corbusier, Natalia Goncharova, Fernand Léger, Jean Lurçat, Man Ray, Louis Marcoussis, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Rouault. By uniting important paintings and drawings with the resulting tapestry, the exhibition shows their true purpose, revealing modernism’s profound dialogue with the decorative arts. 

This exhibition holds a special significance at the Barnes; when a selection of the tapestries Cuttoli commissioned toured the US in the 1930s and ’40s, Dr. Albert C. Barnes was one of her most vocal advocates and patrons. The three tapestries he bought after designs by Picasso, Rouault, and Miró form the basis of this exhibition. Among the rich archival materials included in this show is a digitized national radio broadcast of Dr. Barnes speaking about Cuttoli.

LIST OF ARTISTS
Georges Braque
André Derain
Raoul Dufy
Le Corbusier
Natalia Goncharova
Fernand Léger
Jean Lurçat
Man Ray
Louis Marcoussis
Joan Miró
Pablo Picasso
Georges Rouault

EXHIBITION ORGANIZATION
Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray is organized by the Barnes Foundation and curated by Cindy Kang, associate curator at the Barnes. 

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Cindy Kang is associate curator at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. Her research and publications have focused on the relationship between painting and decorative arts in late 19th- and early 20th-century France. She served as managing curator for the Barnes presentations of Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist (2018–19) and Renoir: Father and Son/Painting and Cinema (2018). She previously held curatorial and research positions at the Bard Graduate Center, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection, and was a scholar-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute. She received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

CATALOGUE
Published by the Barnes Foundation and distributed by Yale University Press, the exhibition catalogue for Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray features new research and scholarship from specialists in France and the US, including essays by Cindy Kang, Laura Pirkelbauer, Virginia Gardner Troy, K. L. H. Wells, and Bruno Ythier.

SPONSORS

This exhibition is sponsored by

Additional grants are provided by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and The Coby Foundation, Ltd.

Generous support comes from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Exhibition Fund, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and Aileen and Brian Roberts.

Critical support for all exhibitions comes from contributors to the Barnes Foundation Exhibition Fund and other individual donors.

The exhibition catalogue is made possible with generous support provided by the Lois and Julian Brodsky Publications Fund.

ABOUT THE BARNES FOUNDATION

The Barnes Foundation is a nonprofit cultural and educational institution that shares its unparalleled art collection with the public, organizes special exhibitions, and presents programming that fosters new ways of thinking about human creativity. The Barnes collection is displayed in ensembles that integrate art and objects from across cultures and time periods, overturning traditional hierarchies and revealing universal elements of human expression. Home to one of the world’s finest collections of impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings—including the largest groups of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne in existence—the Barnes brings together renowned canvases by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and Vincent van Gogh, alongside African, Asian, ancient, and medieval art as well as metalwork, furniture, and decorative art.

The Barnes Foundation was established by Dr. Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to “promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture.” A visionary collector and pioneering educator, Dr. Barnes was also a fierce advocate for the civil rights of African Americans, women, and the economically marginalized. Committed to racial equality and social justice, he established a scholarship program to support young black artists, writers, and musicians who wanted to further their education. Dr. Barnes was deeply interested in African American culture and became actively involved in the Harlem Renaissance, during which he collaborated with philosopher Alain Locke and Charles S. Johnson, the scholar and activist, to promote awareness of the artistic value of African art.

Since moving to Philadelphia in 2012, the Barnes Foundation has expanded its commitment to diversity, inclusion, and social justice, teaching visual literacy in groundbreaking ways; investing in original scholarship relating to its collection; and enhancing accessibility throughout every facet of its program. The Barnes’s current hours and ticket prices are listed on our website. Members can reserve tickets online or by phone as of noon on Monday, July 6, 2020, and the general public can purchase tickets online or by phone as of 10 am on Wednesday, July 8, 2020.