Corcoran public meeting on Thursday

The Corcoran Gallery, which last week announced that it is considering moving (see the blog entry "Corcoran thinking of selling landmarked building, moving"), is holding a public meeting on Thursday night, at 6:30pm, to discuss the state of the institution.

You can pre-register to attend the meeting at the Corcoran's site.

In the last couple days there have been follow up articles that are worth reading:

- "Experts cast doubt on Corcoran Gallery of Art reuse," Washington Business Journal
- "Another Museum Mulls Pulling Up Stakes," Wall Street Journal
- "The high cost of change at the Corcoran," Washington Post

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Interestingly, they are at least holding a public meeting (I bet it will be chaos).

When GWU announced plans to create a "museum of Washington history" ("UPD headquarters to become D.C. history museum" from the GWU Hatchet) which is something of interest not just to the university but the entire community, I suggested to them multiple times that they open the development process up, to more stakeholders and other voices.  They blew off the suggestion.