Update: Outcry Over Brandeis Plan to Close Museum
January 28, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Brandeis University’s plan to close its Rose Art Museum has angered the museum’s board, its director, and art experts, who say that the university is cannibalizing its cultural heritage to pay its bills, reports The New York Times.
“This is one of the artistic and cultural legacies of American Jewry,” said Jonathan Lee, the chairman of the museum’s board of overseers, who said that “nobody at the museum — neither the director nor myself nor anyone else — was informed of this or had any idea what was going on,” reports the newspaper.
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