Gillman on the Barnes: Aug. 22, 2004

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported today that Derek Gillman, the British-born head of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, had been selected to be the new director of the Barnes Foundation, as it prepares to move from suburban Lower Merion to a new site in Philadelphia.
Here’s what Gillman said just two years ago, on an Australian radio program, about founder Albert Barnes‘ likely reaction to moving his famed art collection to the city he came to despise:
I think he’s probably rotating in his grave.
Apparently, disquieting the dead is no deal-killer.