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Barnes Foundation building in Merion, Pa. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Hearing postponed in Barnes Foundation case

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Barnes Foundation building in Merion, Pa. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Barnes Foundation building in Merion, Pa. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) – A hearing has been postponed in the contentious case of the Barnes Foundation art collection’s move to Philadelphia.

No new date has been set for the hearing, which was supposed to happen Friday.

Montgomery County Orphans Court Judge Stanley Ott said he wants the Barnes Foundation and the attorney general’s office, who argued in favor of the move, to explain why the case shouldn’t be reopened.

The judge’s order comes after a petition filed by a citizens group that wants the Barnes to stay in suburban Lower Merion.

Friends of the Barnes Foundation says Ott didn’t have all the evidence when he approved the legendary art collection’s move in 2006.

The Barnes galleries are slated to close in June and reopen near the Philadelphia Museum of Art next year.

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Barnes Foundation building in Merion, Pa. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Barnes Foundation building in Merion, Pa. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.