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, .
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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 .
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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. .