In case you missed the live webcast, some YouTube videos have been posted from Tuesday night’s packed town hall meeting, held at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum, where the community provided reactions and recommendations concerning the possible repurposing of the Rose and sale of its art. The Boston Globe‘s report of that meeting is here.
This video clip contains some of museum director Michael Rush‘s opening remarks:
Some later remarks are here:
The final audience member to speak was Rose family member Fred Hopengarten, who first learned about the meeting when I interviewed him for CultureGrrl the previous night. The sound on the live webcast was glitchy, but Fred sent me some photos from the event (below) and recreated for me his brief remarks:
I am Fred Hopengarten. My mother is Doris Rose.
Our family has supported Brandeis with the naming gift to create the museum,
with the 1981 Rose Purchase Fund, and with the Frederick Hersee Scholarship
for the Government Department (honoring the husband of Anna Rose Hersee),
and with unrestricted giving from the trust for which I was a trustee that
was created for Jean Hersee, daughter of Anna Rose Hersee.
No member of our family has ever attended Brandeis. Yet we have always
supported the university. We hope that this museum will be seen as worthy.
…and the redecorated museum entrance
If Tuesday night’s fervor hasn’t squelched Brandeis’ enthusiasm for sending its art to market, perhaps this will.