Word: sert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...efforts to unravel the Gordian knot which now has choked and indeed, threatens to eliminate the "Mother of the art movement" (the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts) within this institution. I have been awakened more clearly than ever before to the absolute necessity for the Le Corbusier edifice at 24 Quincy Street to put its house in order, and for the administration of this institution to sever the outdated, inextricable bonds of budgetary and administrative decision- making which still bind together the two separate entities of the Carpenter Center and the Department...
...center, through its exhibition program, has achieved an honorable, respected international reputation. The department has outgrown its facility and proof of its legitimacy is evident in the Sert Gallery's recent exhibition of the department's alumni achievements in the art world. Both the Carpenter Center and the VES department have expanded beyond their earlier constraints...
...administrative officer of this University, I implore you to give credence to the celebration of the arts by removing the mechanism which permits its destruction within this notable edifice, by rescinding this unconscionable act, by resuscitating the "Mother of the art movement" within this institution, and thereby saving the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program in respect for the thousands of people who have benefited from it in the past, and for the future generations who may be rewarded...
...curator, however, said he will continue his fight with the center's new director, Senior Lecturer on the Visual Arts Robert G. Gardner, to save the center's Sert Gallery. Gardner, who took office last Thursday, wants to convert the gallery into an art studio. And it was Gardner who initiated the layoff of the curator in April...
Brandenberg-Horn, who has been designing exhibits in the center for 23 years, has formed his own grassroots organization, Save The Exhibition Program, and altered the Sert Gallery's main sign to say, "Save the SERT GALLERY Exhibition Program...