On Friday, a Boston Globe editorial said that the endowment had
fallen from $712 million to $549 million.
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/waltham/articles/2009/01/30/
war_of_the_rose/
On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Sheila A. Cork wrote:
> I don't understand how it can be justified in any way to sell of a
> unique art collection to Benefit the endowment of the college. How
> much had the endowment lost? Was it down to 0 and the college
> totally bankrupt?
>
> In my opinion this makes a mockery of all the intentions of the
> people who donated their pieces to the collection.
>
> What kind of an impact will this have on potential donors to art
> institutions? I would be extremely reluctant to donate art
> anywhere in view of this decision.
>
> Sheila A. Cork
> Librarian
> New Orleans Museum of Art
> City Park
> 1 Collins Diboll Circle
> P.O. Box 19123
> New Orleans, LA 70179-0123
>
> 504-658-4117
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>
> --- On Mon, 2/2/09, Peter Stern <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Peter Stern <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [ARLIS-L] Fallout from Brandeis
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 7:59 AM
>
> "In the Closing of Brandeis Museum, a Stark Statement of Priorities
>
> By ROBERTA SMITH
> Published: February 1, 2009
>
> WALTHAM, Mass. - 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."
>
> Entire article at
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/arts/design/02rose.html?ref=arts
>
> Peter Stern, Ph.D.
> Bibliographer for Romance
> Languages, Fine Arts, and Area Studies
> Adjunct Assoc. Professor, History Department
> 1967 Du Bois Library
> University of Massachusetts
> 154 Hicks Way
> Amherst MA 01003-9275
> 413-545-3967
> 413 577-2565 (fax)
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