Doling out news just before holiday weekends is usually a tactic of institutions that want to hide bad news. But today Brandeis University put out good news: it has settled the lawsuit filed by supporters of the Rose Art Museum there, ending any plans to sell the collection.
I just filed an article with details to The Art Newspaper, which has posted it on its website.
For background, here are previous posts:
More on the renovation (here), on artists’ support for the Rose lawsuit (here), and on the university’s improved financial condition (here).
And here is Brandeis’s press release posted a short time ago.
And Geoff Edgers in the Boston Globe has reached two of the plaintiffs, Meryl Rose and Jonathan Lee, both of whom praised the new university president, Fred Lawrence.
Lawrence, as you will see if you read my article in The Art Newspaper, graduated from Williams College, which may have something to do with his grasp of why the Rose is important. Though not an arts major, he took two art history courses at Williams. Often, Lawrence told me today, “when I mention that I went to Williams, that is enough of a credential in the art world.”
UPDATE, 7/1: The AAMD approves, in a letter to Lawrence.