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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. more ›

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. more ›