(February 12, 2009) In a live Ustream webcast on February 11, faculty and alumni from Brandeis University hosted an emotional town meeting about the future of their Waltham, Massachusetts, institution’s 48-year-old Rose Art Museum. The self-described financially-flailing university started the new year with a Board of Trustees decision to raise funds through the closing of the musuem, an important New England repsository of post-war artwork. Facing an uncertain future is a collection of about 7,000 modern and contemporary works of art—from Picasso to Warhol---valued at around $350 to $400 ...
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