Greg Cook reports on the latest from the Rose Art Museum front.

The Globe reports.

Joel Brown disputes:

... Right. Although his resignation is dated Aug. 31, its announcement now via email last night to "the Brandeis community" is NOT a coincidence. Reinharz's disastrous handling of the university's plan to close the Rose and sell its collection to solve Brandeis' financial problems has been a worldwide embarrassment and has alienated many in the university community, including some donors. ...

Greg Cook gets the scoop.

Joel Brown discusses a bill now in the New York legislature that would ban the sale of museum assets to pay for operating costs:

Wonder if there are any fans of the Rose on Beacon Hill?

The financially strapped school is now spending $20,000 for a crisis-communications PR firm to help it clean up the mess left over from the Rose Art museum crisis.

Greg Cook posts Brandeis President Yehuda Reinharz's latest missive on the Rose Art Museum, then reads between the lines.

The New York Times wags its near-bankrupt finger at Brandeis University and sternly admonishes it not to sell off pieces of itself in an effort to stay alive.

That might explain why the school is in such a rush to decommission the Rose Art Museum, Greg Cook explains:

... Sherman has served on the boards of several local cultural organizations, but his career is marked by repeatedly being at the wrong place at the wrong time - when companies he ran sputtered, filed for bankruptcy, were gobbled up by competitors. ...

Via Joel Brown, who has more links on the fading Rose, such as one to this Globe article on how local institutions will lose millions in grant money this year thanks to Goniff Madoff.

1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29.

Via Geoff Edgers.

Chuck Tanowitz urges you to see the museum now, before it shuts forever this summer:

... The art is wonderful, an amazing collection of major modern works, but so is the space. The original museum is filled with light and also feels comfortable and serene. ...

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