News Item: Brandeis to close Rose Art Museum
The university will sell its entire art collection, in order to cope with the financial crisis. Now I could call this a huge tragedy and an embarrassing day for the university, but that would be a lie; I don't think I ever actually set foot in the museum in my whole four years there.
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 26, 2009 09:58 PMI can see the article in Gravity now... "University to scan books, sell contents of library to Half.com"
Posted by: jabbett at January 26, 2009 11:10 PMThat's the kind of thing they should have been doing all along instead of crying poor and holding their hands out constantly.
Posted by: LilB at January 27, 2009 01:42 PMI think I maybe ventured in there, oh twice during my 4 years. Then again, I'm not too big on modern art...
Posted by: jaws at January 27, 2009 07:34 PMI never went into the Rose either, but I think they're making a mistake in selling off the collection - it's a blow to their intellectual credibility, a decision that makes the university look bad. They'll probably regret it later, but they'll never be able to get back what they're set to lose.
Posted by: Joe at January 27, 2009 10:01 PM