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...tremendously encouraged," Fogg director Seymour Slive said last of current fundraising efforts who has already raised more than $20 millions for the Fogg over the past three years, said he spent the weekend in New York City "trying to find potential new sources and make some new friends" for the museum...
...Slive met with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci about 10 days ago to discuss city approval of a proposed bridge to link the new museum and the present Fogg building Museum officials said the bridge would make it easier to move artworks between the two buildings and improve museum security
Vellucci, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, has said that he doesn't know whether he will approve the connector. But Slive said yesterday that the proposed addition is feasible without it, adding that a final decision on the bridge will not come until construction begins
...willing to auction off masterpieces to pay for plumbing and wiring. This well-intentioned but clumsy interference apparently gave Bok the final push toward a move he may have already favored: He cancelled all expansion plans, contending that the art sale proposal would scare away any possible replacements for Slive, who announced last year that he would relinquish the directorship this fall...
Regardless of who introduced the possibility of selling art it seems clear that pressure from the Corporation made the scheme unavoidable. Bok is using a problem he and his cohorts nurtured as an excuse not to move ahead with the expansion. Ironically, people close to the committee searching for Slive's replacement report that apparent University indifference toward the Fogg's pressing expansion needs may now become the chief obstacle to finding a suitable new director...