As it came to pass in Waltham, MA, so may it also happen in Nashville.
A change of president at Brandeis University brought about a new commitment to retaining the endangered Rose Art Museum and its important collection.of contemporary art, which the previous president had targeted for possible sale.
Now comes the news that Fisk University’s president, Hazel O’Leary, will retire from that post at the end of this year. O’Leary spearheaded the wrongheaded plan to sell (to Alice Walton‘s Crystal Bridges of American Art) a half-share of her institution’s celebrated Stieglitz Collection.
In the meantime (and there’s still a lot of “meantime” before O’Leary leaves), the prolonged litigation continues over the controversial proposed sale, which runs counter to the written stipulations of the Stieglitz Colllection’s donor, artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
Fisk’s lawyers this week filed a brief opposing the Attorney General’s request to be allowed to appeal the latest decision (a Fisk victory) to the State Supreme Court.