Department of Renamings: Barnes Foundation, "Artemis"

The future site of the new Barnes "Art Education Center"

What's in a name?

---In a press release that hit my inbox today from the Barnes Foundation, I learned not only that Ballinger, a Philadelphia firm, has been named associate architect for the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia (to be designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects), but that the new facility that will house Albert Barnes' celebrated collection at the site of a soon-to-be-demolished youth detention center (above) has a new name: "The Barnes Foundation's new Art Education Center."

And I had thought it was now officially a museum, not a school. I guess they want Judge Ott to know that they are complying with Dr. Barnes' educational edict.

---While I was at the Metropolitan Museum today, I stalked the hunting goddess and her pet, only to discover that they are no longer "Artemis and the Stag." In the wisdom of the Met's curators (or the new anonymous owner), they've now become "Artemis and the Deer." Whoever they are, they're front and center near the entrance of the museum's new Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, where they are on six-month loan:

Photo: Lee Rosenbaum