00:01I think an enormous conspiracy is at work here.
00:07No one knows this story.
00:09This is the scandal of the art world.
00:14Barnes was way ahead of his time.
00:16He collected some of the greatest art in the history of the world.
00:18The Barnes Foundation is the single most important American cultural monument of the first half of the 20th century.
00:27They've got more Cezannes than are in the entire city of Paris.
00:30There's 181 Renoirs, 59 by Matisse, Picasso, 46.
00:36It is the greatest act of cultural abandonism since World War II.
00:45I had an art handler there, and the first time she picked up the Van Gogh postman,
00:52she sat on a bench and she cried.
00:53Barnes wasn't interested in a mass experience.
00:57He was interested in a quality experience.
01:01He established his foundation where he did to get it away from Philadelphia.
01:07We've got this magnificent collection being hidden away from the world.
01:12There was a vast conspiracy to move the Barnes.
01:15Down in Philadelphia, ten times more people a day can be able to see it.
01:22Barnes turned to the best lawyers he could find to draw off his will.
01:26The collection shall never be sold, shall never be loaned.
01:30Once everybody's dead, they'll do what they want.
01:34The whole establishment wanted to capture the prize.
01:37They wanted to move the Barnes to downtown Philadelphia.
01:41Who speaks for art when so many political forces are at work against it?
01:50These are not people who are concerned about the art.
01:52These are people who are concerned about money.
01:56Culture has become big business.
01:57Culture is an industry.
01:59It's about who controls $25 billion worth of art.
02:04It was Barnes' art.
02:06And these people, these vandals, stepped in and took it away from them.
02:11The forces wanted it moves no matter what.
02:15Philistine!
02:19It'll be a tragedy, and it'll be a tragedy long remembered.
02:26It'll be a tragedy, and it'll be a tragedy, and it'll be a tragedy.
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