by James Panero
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2011
The Rockefeller family has long been among the nation’s most generous patrons of high culture. James Panero assesses the family’s contributions to the Museum of Modern Art, New York’s Riverside Church, Colonial Williamsburg, Rockefeller Center, the Cloisters, Lincoln Center, the Asia Society, and much else besides, in his review of Suzanne Loebl’s America’s Medicis.
by James Panero
From Philanthropy magazine, Summer 2011
After years of controversy, the saga of the Barnes Foundation comes to an end this weekend as the collection opens in its new home in Philadelphia, May 19. James Panero looks at the cautionary tale left behind in Merion. Read his piece from the Summer 2011 issue of Philanthropy and see how Albert Barnes, in going to extravagant lengths to preserve his vision in perpetuity, managed to outsmart everyone—including himself.