听力音频：
L1
讲座
1. What does the professor mainly discuss?
A debate over the role that museums should play in art education
The relationship between an art collector and famous painters of his time
The emergence of Philadelphia as a center for fine art in the 1920s
An unconventional approach to exhibiting art in a museum setting
2. According to the professor, what were some of Albert Barnes’s goals?（多选题）
To persuade famous painters to teach younger artists
To make his collection accessible to people who are not art experts
To promote art as an essential feature of education
To build a major museum in the center of a large city
3. What does the professor imply when he mentions that labels are missing from the Barnes gallery walls?
There is not enough wall space in the galleries to accommodate the labels.
Art historians rarely agree about what should be included on art labels.
Reading labels tends to discourage discussions in the galleries.
Reading labels might influence viewers to look at art in a particular way
4. According to the professor, why did Barnes create ensembles?（多选题）
To explore what makes one work of art more important than another
To draw attention to common visual elements shared by a group of objects
To provide strategy to help viewers recall what they saw
To ensure that masterpieces would be distributed evenly around the museum
5. What is one unusual feature of the Barnes Foundation’s collection?
It includes objects that are not normally regarded as works of art.
Most of its pieces are by artists from the Philadelphia area
None of its paintings were created during Albert Barnes’s lifetime.
It is organized into ensembles that are changed frequently
6. What opinion does the professor express about the Barnes Foundation’s new building in Philadelphia?
The size of the new building makes the Barnes collection seem smaller
The new building honors Barnes’s vision while offering additional advantages.
The new building should have included more classrooms for educational programs.
The new building’s architecture creatively reflects the style of the collection.
