The Rose Museum Gallery
At the time of the announced closing, Brandeis president Jehuda Reinharz blamed the economy, which had hurt the university's endowment, and the fallout from the Bernard Madoff scandal, which cost several longtime Brandeis donors money.
The 2006 "Balance & Power: Performance & Surveillance in Video Art" embedded cameras within balloons, which recorded viewers.

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