The Tennessee Attorney General is back with another plan for the O’Keeffe collection that the Crystal Bridges Museum wants to support and Fisk, seemingly, is eager to monetize:
In two briefs filed Friday, the attorney general, Robert E. Cooper Jr., told the Nashville chancery court of “a new development” in which a Fisk alumna, Carol Creswell Betsch, has established a fund within the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. The fund would pay the annual costs of displaying and maintaining the collection on Fisk’s campus, he said. Mr. Cooper also suggested the Tennessee State Museum as a potential site to display the collection. […] In a statement, Fisk University dismissed the proposed fund arrangement as “another scheme which fails to address Fisk’s survival.” “The only proposal before the Court which can provide for the permanent care of the art and allow Fisk University to continue its primary educational mission,” the university added, “is the sharing arrangement with Crystal Bridges Museum.”
New Proposal to Keep Fisk University From Selling Stake in Collection (Arts Beat/New York Times)
