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Brandeis agrees not to sell off 20th-century art holdings

By adamg - 6/30/11 - 12:10 pm

Greg Cook reports the latest from the ongoing Rose Art Museum saga.

Brandeis plans major renovations to museum it once wanted to shut

By adamg - 3/11/11 - 10:50 am

Greg Cook reports on some impending work at the Rose Art Museum.

Talk about truth unto its innermost parts: Brandeis might sue Harper's Magazine

By adamg - 11/1/09 - 8:32 am

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

Brandeis president to quit, but says it's not over the art museum

By adamg - 9/25/09 - 7:56 am

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. ...

Rose Art Museum trustees sue Brandeis to stop sale of art

By adamg - 7/27/09 - 9:03 pm

Greg Cook gets the scoop.

Rose Art Museum situation inspires legislation - in New York

By adamg - 3/18/09 - 1:29 pm

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?

Brandeis installs barn door on Rose museum

By adamg - 2/10/09 - 8:40 am

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.

The Rose Art Museum is saved - or is it?

By adamg - 2/5/09 - 11:32 pm

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

Institution in financial chaos lectures institution in financial chaos

By adamg - 2/2/09 - 9:39 am

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.

Brandeis's board chairman is a corporate liquidator

By adamg - 1/30/09 - 10:52 am

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.

Sit-down planned to save Rose Art Museum

By adamg - 1/27/09 - 8:03 am

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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