Looks like the Pew-Rendell-compelled march of the Barnes Foundation downtown will continue. Judge Stanley Ott has declined to reconsider his 2004 decision approving the move, AP reports. A group of activists and Montgomery County pressed for keeping the foundation in Lower Merion, but Ott said the county and the Friends of the Barnes did not have the legal standing in the case.
(Image: Giorgio de Chirico's Dr. Albert C. Barnes)
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Posted by Johnny | May 15, 2008 7:03 PM
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