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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...
...didn't take long for people to realize what an error Sert's tower, with its primitive strip mall, truly was. Contemporary critics of Holyoke Center, the Prudential Tower, and similar Cold-War pedestrian shopping arcades are right: The Holyoke Center Arcade is an alienating space...
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...
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...