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Philip Glass and Other Artists Donate Work to Fight NYU Expansion

By Danielle Tcholakian | December 22, 2014 12:42pm
 Composer Philip Glass donated a page from an original music score, which will be sold for $8,000 to benefit NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan.
Composer Philip Glass donated a page from an original music score, which will be sold for $8,000 to benefit NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan.
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GREENWICH VILLAGE — Composer Philip Glass and other artists are donating their work to a campaign against New York University's expansion in Greenwich Village.

NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, an organization opposed to the NYU 2031 expansion, launched an online fundraiser last week selling items including a page from an original Glass score for $8,000.

The group hopes to raise at least $30,000 by Jan. 11, which would go toward legal costs if New York State's Court of Appeals agrees to hear the opponents' case against NYU's plan.

"We've had no trouble getting many of the Village's most stellar figures in the arts and entertainment to help us out in this struggle," said Mark Crispin Miller, an organizer with the group and a professor at NYU.

 One of the fundraising campaign's prizes is a satirical poster of NYU President John Sexton as the Roman emperor Nero.
One of the fundraising campaign's prizes is a satirical poster of NYU President John Sexton as the Roman emperor Nero.
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Miller said Glass is a "dedicated backer" of the anti-expansion movement. Others who donated their work include Gary Indiana, a longtime art critic at The Village Voice whose work was recently featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, who gave a drawing of cats to be sold for $5,000.

Those who want to make a smaller donation can give $200 to get a campaign button and a satirical poster depicting NYU President John Sexton as the Roman emperor Nero.

Other items for sale include a signed DVD of the documentary "Gasland" for $500, a boxed set of Lapham’s Quarterly signed by Lewis Lapham for $2,500 and a 12-piece set of signed copies of Eric Bogosian's work, including plays and a CD and DVDs of his performances.

An NYU spokesman declined to comment on the fundraising effort.