Brauer Museum Closes Amid Controversial Plans to Deaccession O’Keeffe Painting

This article was first published by Artnews.

Indiana’s Valparaiso University has closed its Brauer Museum of Art and dismissed its director, Jonathan Canning, amid a controversy over plans to sell key works of art from its collection.

The moves were announced late last week by Valparaiso University as part of an “administrative restructuring” meant to address the school’s declining enrollment and growing operations deficit, which is currently $9 million.

The university drew criticism last year after announcing it would sell three of the museum’s most valuable paintings worth more than $20 million in order to fund renovations of freshman dormitories.

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