Barnes Foundation

This guide to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia starts at the reflecting pool architect Billie Tsien placed before the entrance, then reaches back to Laura Barnes, wife of collector Albert Barnes, who spent the nineteen thirties building her own twelve-acre arboretum in Merion while Albert chased down Renoirs and Cezannes. You'll hear how a botanist described her holding her own against her famously difficult husband. The guide asks what these grounds still owe to a garden planted five miles away.