UPDATE

Friends,

We wanted to alert you to some important developments in our efforts to stop the misguided sale of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, a National Historic Landmark and one of America’s oldest museums. This coming week will be pivotal to our campaign.

First, we’re excited that Save the Corcoran’s Jayme McLellan will be on NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi Show on Monday at 1230pm ET to talk more about the current situation. Please listen live. Call in to the show, post comments at the website or tweet with the hashtag #savethecorcoran to show your support.

Also, today Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott published a piece that put things in stark relief: “…at a critical moment, when the Corcoran desperately needs people to rally behind it, the board of directors has indicated that it is seriously considering a move that would further alienate supporters of the museum.”

On that last point, he is right, and we cannot afford to underestimate how far things have progressed behind closed doors. Comparing the non-transparent maneuvering by the current leadership to the “dictatorial and disenfranchising” executive decisions that rocked Susan G. Komen for the Cure earlier this year, Kennicott warns that “the college and the collection is now in danger of being whittled down to just the college, leaving the collection without a landmark home.”

Our best hope right now is to stop this sale at the board level. Please SIGN OUR PETITION calling on the board to vote NO. We ask those of you who have contacts in the art world to get this story out and rally support for our cause. Please forward this posting to people who care about art and ask them to speak up with us.

We deeply appreciate everything you are doing to help Save The Corcoran.

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