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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 [log in to unmask] --- 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) [log in to unmask] http://library.umass.edu/subject/latam __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]

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