Word: sert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...open space can be seen as inviting, Holyoke Center itself cannot. Josep Lluis Sert's massive construction originally met with nothing but praise. As a 1957 Boston Globe review put it, "[A] new visual image will take over the University, [an image] which has become the symbol of intellectual achievement...
Last week, Roger Brandenberg-Horn, whose job as curator of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts was ended this month, posed for a picture in front of the Sert Gallery...
Clearly visible in the photograph, which ran on the front page of The Crimson, was the gallery's sign, which Brandenberg-Horn, in protest of a plan to close the gallery, had defaced to say, "Save the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program...
...hasten to add that I am greatly indebted to the many people (in the thousands) from the broadest community who have sincerely stepped forward in support of the continuance of the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program and sincerely appreciate the noble efforts of those within the University administration who seek the means to restore me to wholeness...
Editor's note: Brandenberg-Horn, who had originally been terminated as of last week, has been put back on the University payroll. He no longer has a job at the Carpenter Center, and the Sert Gallery appears to have closed...