What kind of school Purges their Art?

Monday, 2^nd February 2009

'We Were Never Consulted At All,' Rose Director Says (Boston, Boston Globe, US)
The director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University has issued a scathing response to the university's plans to close the museum and sell off its $350 million art collection, saying he feels 'shame and deep regret over the shortsightedness of this decision.' 'I want you to know from me some basic facts,' Michael Rush wrote in a statement posted over the weekend on the museum's website.

Boston Globe

Brandeis's Next Problem: Angry Donors, Reluctant To Give (Boston, US, Wall Street Journal)
Few things are more poignant than a gem of a museum whose days may be numbered. So it was at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University on a visit Friday, days after the university's trustees voted unanimously to trash the institution by closing it and auctioning off the 6,000 works in its collection. The action came without consulting either the museum's own board of governors or its director, Michael Rush.

Wall Street Journal

A University That Purges Art?... Well - Not Much Of A School Then, Is It?

The Brandeis vote was an act of breathtaking stealth and presumption: a raid on a museum that supports itself, raises its own funds and has consistently planned wisely for its own future without leaning on the university. The trustees treated it nonetheless as a disposable asset.

The New York Times