Barnes Part II: The Legal Battles
The Art Law Podcast · Steve Schindler & Katie Wilson-Milne
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Show Notes
Katie and Steve continue discussing the Barnes Foundation with attorney Ralph Wellington, who represented the Barnes Foundation during its successful but extremely controversial multi-year effort to amend its founding documents and create a new arts education center in Philadelphia. They discuss the origins of the Foundation, its governing documents, financial struggles, and evolution over the many decades since Albert Barnes' death in 1951, as well as the legal doctrines at play in "breaking" the terms Barnes created for the Foundation.
Notes for this episode: https://artlawpodcast.com/2026/02/17/barnes-part-ii-the-legal-battles/
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