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A media peek at the new Barnes

About 200 reporters, critics, and photographers from the United States and abroad descended on the Barnes Foundation on Wednesday as the clock ticked down toward the Saturday opening of the new gallery on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The assembled journalists toured galleries filled with the early modernist collection assembled by Albert C. Barnes and listened to foundation officials and board members tout the new building and the museum’s controversial move from Merion to the city. Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and landscape architect Laurie Olin — designers of building and grounds — also spoke briefly.

A guided tour passes the reflecting pool outside the new Benjamin Franklin Parkway campus of the Barnes Foundation as the Impressionist and Modernist gallery holds an opening press preview May 16, 2012.  International media and critics, building paparazzi, art poohbahs, and the local working press converged on the new Barnes gallery, as it prepares to open May 19. No ids. ( TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer )
A guided tour passes the reflecting pool outside the new Benjamin Franklin Parkway campus of the Barnes Foundation as the Impressionist and Modernist gallery holds an opening press preview May 16, 2012. International media and critics, building paparazzi, art poohbahs, and the local working press converged on the new Barnes gallery, as it prepares to open May 19. No ids. ( TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer )Read more

About 200 reporters, critics, and photographers from the United States and abroad descended on the Barnes Foundation on Wednesday as the clock ticked down toward the Saturday opening of the new gallery on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

The assembled journalists toured galleries filled with the early modernist collection assembled by Albert C. Barnes and listened to foundation officials and board members tout the new building and the museum's controversial move from Merion to the city. Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and landscape architect Laurie Olin — designers of building and grounds — also spoke briefly.