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Instead of selling their museum's art collection, Brandeis will rent it out to the highest bidder. [Boston Herald]
The University of Vermont still needs the milk, but they're selling the cows. [Burlington Free Press]
As if being a fisherman in New England isn't difficult enough, federal regulators have been questionably fining more than any other area and they got to spend the money. [Boston Globe]
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Mayor Menino wants to "take more risks" in the next four years. [Boston Globe]
Flaherty and Yoon are keeping their options open. [Boston Globe]
Town of Amherst votes to accept two Guantanamo Bay prisoners as residents -- if they're released. [Christian Science Monitor]
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Undecided voters can watch one last debate between Menino and Flaherty tonight. [Boston Globe]
Some people are surprised that college kids still have loud parties after city regulations limit 4 residents per apartment. [Boston Herald]
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Results tagged “brandeis”
- Kick a guy when he's down! Former schoolmate remembers Philip Markoff as an arrogant nerd. [Boston Herald]
- CT AG wants Craigslist to tighten controls on erotic services. [Hartford Courant]
- Mayor Menino makes it official and will likely overstay his welcome at City Hall without debating his opponents. [Boston Globe]
- Unlike Boston College, Brandeis is allowing Bill Ayers to appear on campus. Some people are pissed off about it, of course. [The Justice]
The Music Unites Us World Music Series has been operating for a solid half decade at Brandeis University. The series' underlying mission of connecting global cultures through sonic textures may have finally met its defining moment with a Saturday evening performance by Nettle. Making their U.S. debut in the Slosberg Music Center, the rag-tag team of musicians from different parts of the globe made a stunning and startling mark for the series. With Jace Clayton (aka renowned producer DJ/rupture) acting as impromptu ringleader, the quartet performed a tight set that combined Moroccan composition, Western-classical strings, Americana folk, hip-hop breaks, electronic beats, and a scant bit of noise into a mind-bending set.
Forgive Bostonist for the botanical metaphors, but where a rose once thrived, a nettle shall grow among a bush of thorns.
When Andy Warhol said that "department stores are kind of like museums," he boiled art down to its essential role as product. Last night a large group gathered at the Rose Art Museum to ask the Brandeis administration to disregard that formulation.
We can understand how working for the Brandeis communications office these days might make you a bit tetchy, but why would you take it out on the blogs? A man identified as Brandeis communications director David Nathan did just that. Using an anonymous email, Nathan allegedly demanded that blogger Felix Salmon remove a blog post he had written about Brandeis's Rose Art Museum because it suffered from unspecified "factual errors." The silver lining? Salmon managed to learn that "all of the Rose Art Museum's artworks are considered to be assets of the university endowment, valued at $1 each." Any profit from a sale, therefore, will result in an immediate gain for the endowment—the probable rationale behind dissolving the museum and selling off its stock. [Market Movers]
Damn, Brandeis is hurtin'... not just for money, but for reputation too. Wouldn't it have been nice if they could have gotten a cute little PR campaign in the media, something like "Serious Jewish college seeks some serious funds"? Instead, the school closed a little art museum that most people had never been to and the world blew up in its face. A New York Times editorial excoriates the decision, saying the sale will "create a gaping hole in Brandeis’s mission and its reputation." And now the museum's former director, Michael Rush, is lashing out, too: “Brandeis is putting its intellectual capital and very credibility as an institution of higher learning on the auction block." In an earlier Q&A, Rush emphasized that the Rose is not in financial trouble, the school is, so there's no need to donate to the Rose—just to Brandeis. Which no one wants to do now that the school has alienated most of its supporters. Sticky situation.
Sike! Brandeis may be closing the Rose Art Museum, but it's not necessarily selling all the art. Ha! That was a good one, Brandeis! We are slapping our knees over here.
Even since our post this morning, there's been a flurry of activity on the Brandeis art front. In addition to the sit-in already mentioned, there's an alumni petition opposing the closing, and a new website dedicated to saving the Rose Art Museum. Follow the links and join the cause if you want Brandeis to retain its "hidden gem." (And if you consider professor Wayne Marshall a gem in his own right, there's a campaign for him as well.) Leor at Perfect Lines has still more helpful information. Additionally, the Rose Art Museum’s Chairman of the Board of Overseers, Jonathan Lee, will be on WGBH's Greater Boston tonight at 7.
If you've never been, get to Brandeis' Rose Art Museum as soon as you can: the art is for sale and the museum is set to close soon. The school is selling the works in order to raise money for continued operations; as our inside source at Brandeis described it, the school's financial situation is "wicked bad." Brandeis president Jehuda Reinharz puts it a bit more mildly, saying "These are extraordinary times," with the school facing a possible budget shortfall of $10 million. Brandeis has already implemented a hiring freeze and is considering some other radical measures, such as requiring students to take summer courses.
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