Art Jail - PhillyBlog

kd592 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008, 12:34 PM

this is fun:

Art Jail, the fine art of punishment™ by Schizotect A+D

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The Barnes Foundation is home to one of the world’s largest and most valuable collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir and Modigliani, as well as important examples of African sculpture. The mission of the Foundation is primarily educational, with a special emphasis on the enrichment of the lives of poor and African-American people.

After years of legal battles the Foundation is moving it’s collections onto Philadelphia’s Museum Row into a space on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway currently occupied by The Youth Study Center, a correctional facility for young people, most of whom are poor and African-American.

Rather than tearing down the existing Youth Study Center,building and moving the young inmates into a new building in a low-income neighborhood in West Philadelphia as was originally planned, we’ve taken a more innovative approach which hews closer to the educational intent of Barnes Foundation founder , Dr. Albert C. Barnes. The ArtJail combines these two institutions with similar missions into one large structure with facilities that are physically separate but visually mingled; the imprisoned children are edified, as Doctor Barnes intended, by the presence of great art, while Foundation visitors get a rare glimpse of the education of some of our culture’s most under-privileged young people.

Mixiboi · #2 (**permalink**) 08-29-2008, 02:51 AM

The Barnes Collection and the Youth Study Center

Jayfar · #3 (**permalink**) 08-29-2008, 07:36 AM

This, I knew at a glance, has to be the work of Albo Jeavons, best know for his Disneyhole Museum of Corporate Welfare project. He doesn't have Art Jail linked to his main site, but this is unquestionably Albo.

http://www.albojeavons.com/

EDIT:

Yep, Albo.

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/20...-been-realized