I Saw That Sign Just Yesterday

Last week, Roger Brandenberg-Horn, whose job as curator of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts was ended this month, posed for a picture in front of the Sert Gallery.

Clearly visible in the photograph, which ran on the front page of The Crimson, was the gallery's sign, which Brandenberg-Horn, in protest of a plan to close the gallery, had defaced to say, "Save the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program."

Less than 24 hours later, however, the gallery was closed down, and all traces of the sign were removed. Employees at the Carpenter Center said yesterday that the sign came down by order of the center's new director, Senior Lecturer on the Visual Arts Robert G. Gardner.

It had been Gardner's decision to get rid of Brandenberg-Horn and close the gallery. One employee close to Gardner said the director was upset to see the photograph of the sign, but the employee was unsure as to whether the photograph itself prompted the removal of the sign, or whether the removal had been planned earlier. Gardner said in an interview last month that he knew what Brandenberg-Horn had done with the sign and did not mind at all.