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Valparaiso University filed a petition Tuesday to move forward with the auction of the three cornerstone works of art from the Brauer Museum to fund freshman dorm renovations, noting a $9 million deficit and declining student enrollment.

A trial court in Indiana recently dismissed a lawsuit challenging the proposed sale of three works of art by Valparaiso University: Rust Red Hills by Georgia O’Keefe, Mountain Landscape...

An Indiana judge has dismissed a lawsuit aimed at preventing the Brauer Museum from deaccessioning three paintings to fund a freshman dorm.

Following a county judge’s ruling in favour of Valparaiso University, both sides are making their case to Indiana’s attorney general

Now that a county judge ruled in favor of Valparaiso University, both sides are appealing to Indiana’s attorney general.

Shortly after Jonathan Canning arrived last year as the new director at the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Philipp Brockington Jr., one of the museum’s benefactors, dropped by and began sharing his enthusiasm for art and the museum with Canning. “He continued to drop by unannounced and stroll through the galleries and storage with me. He was a fount of knowledge,” Canning said, ...

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Valparaiso University and its president, José Padilla, in a bid to stop the sale of millions of dollars of artwork to fund dorm improvements for first-year students. Sale of the artwork isn’t going forward yet, as the Indiana Attorney General’s Office still has to rule on whether the Percy H. Sloan Trust, which provided directly or indirectly for ...

Do Dick Brauer, the namesake of the Brauer Museum at Valparaiso University and its first curator, and Philipp Brockington, a retired university law professor who is one of the museum’s benefactors, have legal standing to stop the sale of the museum’s most valuable artwork so the proceeds can be used to fund dorm renovations? That’s now in the hands of Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Thode. ...

Wednesday’s tour of the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus by residents of Pines Village Retirement Communities was to celebrate the legacy of Josephine Ferguson as a major benefactor of the museum. Ferguson, who died March 11 at age 99 and also lived at Pines Village, would have been 100 on Aug. 30. Her investment in artwork, said those leading the tour of the Ferguson ...

The question of whether art museums should sell of their collection to fund other projects can cause controversy at colleges and universities.