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ROSE ART MUSEUM REMAINS OPEN, FOR NOW

By News Desk

A STATEMENT FROM ARTFORUM’S PUBLISHERS

ROBERT IRWIN (1928–2023)

HONG KONG–BASED AMTD BUYS THE ART NEWSPAPER

April 20, 2009 1:11 pm

Brandeis University said on Friday that it would allow its Rose Art Museum to remain open while its fate is being decided, reports the New York Times_. University trustees voted in January to close the museum with the goal of selling artworks to raise money to aid Brandeis’s ailing endowment. After the vote, the university backtracked, saying that no works would be sold in the immediate future and that the building would remain open as an art-study center. The Massachusetts attorney general’s office is reviewing Brandeis’s plans. In a letter to the university on Friday, Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Brandeis’s provost, said the museum’s current exhibitions would be extended through May 17 and then closed while the shows are taken down and an exhibition of works from the permanent collection, chosen by a three-member professional staff, is hung. The museum will reopen to the public on July 22.

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