Less than a month after the Barnes Foundation relocated to downtown Philadelphia from suburban Merion claiming financial necessity, another museum is planning a copycat move.

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Moguls have been funding museums for years but usually posthumously--Hearst Castle, the Frick Collection, the quirky Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia, the institution in Los Angeles housing J.

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By the early 1920s, African art was not only coveted by individuals but had begun entering the collections of museums devoted to modern art, particularly the Barnes Foundation.

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When Tod Williams and Billie Tsien of New York won the commission through a competition held by the Barnes Foundation, they even received the architectural equivalent of hate mail.

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The collection is owned by the Barnes Foundation, established in 1922 under a legal arrangement called an indenture of trust, with the specific stipulation that everything was always to remain exactly as it was in Dr. Barnes's lifetime.

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Barnes runs a non-profit foundation and spends many hours a week on the telephone.

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