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Article: Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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WALTHAM - For almost a year, the news out of Brandeis University
about its Rose Art Museum has been dismaying.
First came Brandeis's extraordinary announcement in January that
it intended to shut down the Rose and sell its collection of 7,000-
odd works to help solve a university budget crisis. Then, in the
face of widespread public condemnation, Brandeis announced an oddly
incomplete about-face: The museum would stay open, but director
Michael Rush would go, staffing would be cut, and some works might
still be sold.
Now comes the museum's astounding new show, "The Rose at
Brandeis: Works From the Collection" - providing, finally, a true
look at the scope, coherence, and sheer distinction ...