Oct 2, 2014
(via After Merger, Corcoran Gallery of Art Faces Uncertain Future)
On Saturday, the Corcoran Gallery of Art played host to a guerrilla funeral, not for a generous public figure or beloved artist, but for the institution itself. To outside observers, the funeral trappings — a hired hearse, Victorian mourning garb, a wreath left at William Corcoran’s grave in Oak Hill Cemetery — might seem hyperbolic. But they reflect the real loss felt by current and former faculty, staff, and students, as well as supporters of both the museum and the school, in the face of the institution’s dissolution.
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