James Rosenquist has pulled out of his planned September show at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum, according to Geoff Edgers in the Boston Globe, but the famed pop artist said that his decision has nothing to do with the controversy swirling around the museum’s future.
Rosenquist said that complications in the aftermath of a fire last year, which destroyed his Florida home and studio, about eighteen-million-dollars’ worth of art and personal items, have made it too difficult for him to participate in the exhibition, which was to have opened September 22 featuring some of his massive paintings, along with other works.