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In the Closing of Brandeis Museum, Trustees Deliver a Statement of Its Priorities

By Roberta Smith Feb. 3, 2009

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.

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