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With an estimated $200 billion in U.S. health-care construction planned for the next decade, how hospitals are built and operated will have a huge impact on the environment. And Gail Vittori means to have an impact on those hospitals. With her husband Pliny Fisk III, Vittori is co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a nonprofit design center in Austin, Texas. MaxPot, as it's known, advises institutions of all kinds--from a homeless shelter in Austin to the Pentagon as it rebuilt after Sept. 11--on how to adopt environmentally sound materials and practices...
Years passed, during which Fisk's endowment dwindled while the art market went into warp drive. In 2005 the school's president, Hazel O'Leary, came up with an idea that could not only pay to renovate the frayed campus gallery where the Stieglitz Collection has languished but also pump millions of dollars into Fisk's general budget. Why not sell off just a bit of that famous art? But when the school moved to bring Radiator Building to market, it triggered what became a lawsuit by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., which moved to block...
That was where things stood until April 5, when Tennessee attorney general Robert Cooper, whose office has the power to approve or disapprove charitable arrangements, rejected the arranged sale because of the difference between $7 million and what Fisk could get on the open market. Now lawyers for both sides plan to sit down in a judge's chambers to see if a new deal can be worked out. Eventually, Fisk fully expects to be taking something to market...
...defense, Jefferson University can offer that it's a university, not an art gallery. Its first responsibility is to the needs of its medical college. Fisk president O'Leary argues something similar. "The major collection we're investing in," she says, "is our students." Still, channeling any money from art deaccessioning into a school's general revenue is a violation of the guidelines of the American Association of Museums. Those hold that such money should always be plowed back into the art collection. But the association has no real enforcement powers...
...doubt, the temptation offered by the hypertrophic art market can also promote institutional laziness. Why come up with other ways to raise money when whatever paintings you have in hand are a potential and easily accessed gold mine? Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, says Fisk could have explored other ways to keep or share the entire collection and still make some money from it. "Why not look into co-ownership with Mrs. Walton?" he asks. "Or they could offer the collection under some kind of partnership arrangement to another historically black university...