The Justice

Media Credit: Julian Agin-Liebes Roy Dawes, Assistant Director of Operations at the Rose, handles works in the museum's vault, including "Blue White" by Ellsworth Kelly.

Over the course of this semester, many questions have emerged and have been left unanswered regarding the Rose Art Museum. What's going to happen to the current exhibitions? What's going to go up when they leave? How can I lay eyes on the Rose's permanent collection before it is shipped off to Christie's?

The staff at the Rose may have been pondering the latter as well. According to Emily Mello, education director at the Rose, an exhibition is being planned to open this upcoming weekend featuring some of the Rose's hidden treasures. Mello says the Rose staff decided only in the past couple weeks to put together the show, which will go up in the Lee Gallery, where Prof. Joe Wardwell's (FA) "Master of Reality" show ran until this past weekend.

All three exhibitions currently up at the Rose-the other two are "Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950" and "Saints and Sinners," which features some works from the permanent collection along with several loans-were supposed to end at the beginning of April. However, the Hofmann Trust and the home institutions of the other loaned works allowed the Rose to extend the exhibitions through commencement. One of the paintings in "Master of Reality," however, was scheduled to appear in a show in New York and couldn't remain at the Rose. Said Mello, "The loans for all of the current exhibitions were slated to be returned after the shows were de-installed on April 5. We were granted permission to extend the exhibitions by nearly all of the lenders, but there were plans for some of the works in 'Master of Reality' to be exhibited in other shows in other venues. Since the show needed to be dismantled, rather than keeping the Lee Gallery empty for the rest of the semester, we thought, 'Let's take the opportunity to pull some works from the vault.'"

The lineup for this "best-of" show hasn't been fully decided yet, although Ellsworth Kelly's "Blue White," a focal point of last year's "Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries," and pieces by Adolph Gottleib and Larry Poons have been confirmed.

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