Word: rosing
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Reinharz issued his letter after receiving one signed by more than 60 faculty members complaining that they had not been consulted on the future of the Rose and urging him to suspend any decisions on the matter. Last week a group of Brandeis students also staged a sit-in to protest the closing...
...just why is Brandeis so intent on repurposing the Rose, in whatever way? For a university with a considerable art-history program, which Brandeis is, to remake its museum into something other than a museum is like an agriculture school selling off its livestock. It means eliminating an important teaching resource...
...some obstacles in the school's path. Her office has already announced that it will examine the intent of the donors of any work that Brandeis attempts to sell, to determine whether they placed restrictions on what uses the school could make of it. Jonathan Lee, chairman of the Rose's board of overseers, has also begun discussions with Coakley's office to see if there are other ways it might intervene. Meanwhile Brandeis has to embark on the complicated process of identifying just which works, if any, it wants to bring to market - a market that's getting worse...
...liquidating even part of the collection, that's a good way to alienate potential future donors - assuming that Brandeis sees a place in its future at all for displaying art. Marlene Persky, who chairs the collections committee of the Rose, had been planning to give the school a work by Vik Muniz, an artist who is represented in the collections of most major American museums. Not anymore. "The things in my collection are objects I've loved and lived with," she says. "If I'm donating them to a museum, I expect that to be a place that I trust...
...Brandeis remains intent on selling part of its collection, there may be a certain logic in getting out of the museum business first. The school may be hoping that if the Rose is transformed into something other than a museum - or just into something that doesn't call itself a museum -?it can circumvent the code of ethics that governs the sale of art by museums. No museum means no rules to observe, especially the most inconvenient one - that museums should not sell art from their permanent collections for any purpose other than to raise funds to purchase more...